Dogs of all nations. In prose and rhyme (1903) (14583814787)

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Title: Dogs of all nations. In prose and rhyme
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Conrad Jenness, 1842-
Subjects: Dogs Dogs
Publisher: New York, J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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heappeared, and wouldnt leave her as long as she remainedwhere they could be with her. She taught them manygood principles, the greatest and most important was un-selfishness. When they were taken from their mother.Katherine fed them while they were young. All would lapmilk out of the same dish, and get along quite amiably, butwhen they were a little older and were given solid food, theywould snap at each other, acting as if they thoughtthe others were getting more than their share. Katherine 166 DOGS OF ALL NATIONS cured them of that habit by not allowing the one thatacted selfish and snapped to have anything at that par-ticular meal. In a little while, she got them all to actbeautifully. She taught them to wait, when the food wasbrought, until all the dogs were there. It was a prettysight to see two or three of the dogs down on their bodies,looking at the food—waiting and turning their heads aboutto see if the absent ones were coming. Nothing would,be touched until all were there.
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Another sweet and thoughtful act of little Katherineswas to have small wooden bird cages hung in -the treesof which there were many in the garden, and groundssurrounding the house. One day she saw a birds nestlying on the ground, and the eggs were broken and thepoor mother bird flying about in great distress. Thenest was blown down during a storm. The branch onwhich the nest was built was broken off. When Katherinesaw the misfortune that had befallen the mother bird, shethought and wondered what she could do to save such IN PROSE AND RHYME. 167 mishaps occurring again. She had watched the slow pro-cess of building a nest, the birds carrying one straw at atime, taking weeks to complete it. The idea came to Kath-erine to have little cages made of wood, similar to the wirecages in which birds are kept, only very much smaller, andfasten them to strong branches of the trees, where thefoliage was very thick. She wasnt certain that her generos-ity and thoughtfulness would be accepted, but de