American homes and gardens (1907) (18152565132)

Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesga41907newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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such a comical appear- ance that all who saw him were convulsed with laughter, while he slunk guiltily aside. On other occasions he would saunter out of the hen house with an egg con- cealed in his cheek, look- ing as innocent as you please. These things happened in the days of his puppyhood when he was naughty; later on there was no cause for
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them descr\ edly popular. 1 am now speaking of the rough- coated variety; the smoot-coated, if I am not mistaken, is not bred in this country at all, probably because it lacks some beauty, although it possesses all the other characteristics of its race. Having owned three St. Bernards, I believe I am qualified in pronouncing judgment upon these dogs. For sagacity, fidelity and a sweet temper, they are certainly un- surpassed. They may be safely entrusted with very young children and constitute a dependable guard of honor to every woman in the household. In my experience, however, a St. Bernard that has been reared at home is preferable to one raised in a kennel. "Prince Bismarck," the best dog of this kind I ever had, came to us on an Oakland county farm in Michigan as a puppy, and was raised on farm products, in- cluding skimmed milk. While we were subsisting on the fat of the land, he saw to it that he got his share. One day he inserted his head in the bran bag in the barn and began licking up the contents. I presume some of the bran got into his nostrils and caused him to sneeze. At any rate, when he pulled his head out, it was powdered with the whitish bran, and the dog, emerging from the barn door, presented