. Dogs of all nations. In prose and rhyme . rbed the family, but moved about like a fain. Hehas been known to climb upon ones knees so quietly, thatthe person did not know he was there, until they saw himor felt his soft, woolly coat. Snowball grew to be quite old, and one day he wasfound stretched out beneath a large snowball tree, was such a fitting place for him to die, as Snowballwas his name, and he looked like snowballs. They duga hole at the very spot where he died and buried him,covering his grave with a mountain of flowers of manykinds. LXXIII. PAEIS POLICE DOG. SEIXE. The pol
. Dogs of all nations. In prose and rhyme . rbed the family, but moved about like a fain. Hehas been known to climb upon ones knees so quietly, thatthe person did not know he was there, until they saw himor felt his soft, woolly coat. Snowball grew to be quite old, and one day he wasfound stretched out beneath a large snowball tree, was such a fitting place for him to die, as Snowballwas his name, and he looked like snowballs. They duga hole at the very spot where he died and buried him,covering his grave with a mountain of flowers of manykinds. LXXIII. PAEIS POLICE DOG. SEIXE. The police department of Paris employ Xewfoundlanddogs to watch along the banks of the river Seine, andrescue persons falling in accidentally, or who throw them- 158 DOGS OF ALL NATIONS selves in purposely to end unhappy lives. Eecently oneof the police dogs dived into the river and brought toshore a man tired of life, and who had jumped intothe water, that it might close over him, and end themiserable existence that had been his lot. Fate seemed. ever against him. Nothing came into his experience thatmade life worth living. The blue sky overhead might cheerothers, but to him it meant no joy. Even the right to enda wretched career was denied him by the dog that feltit a duty to save him from the drowning death he sought. IN PROSE AXD RHYME. 159
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