Dogs of all nations. In prose and rhyme (1903) (14767916784)

Identifier: dogsofallnations00mill (find matches)
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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ter read daily. Thenewsdealer sent his boy to another stand a block or twoaway, and there secured a copy and brought it to Quill,who was much delighted. When the paper was> givenhim, he examined it most critically, and acted as if hethought an attempt was being made to palm off some-thing that was not what he wanted. When the date ofpublication for the magazine arrived, Quill was shown aformer copy and given a shilling, and the fact madeknown to him that a copy was desired, he would go atonce to the newsdealer and put his nose on the magazinehis master wished, and put down the money. Oncewhen he visited the dealer for the magazine, it had notreached him, and Quill looked all over the magazines 122 DOGS OF ALL NATIONS on the counter, and turned them over, searching for theone he- was sent for, and making the place look as if ithad been struck by a small cyclone. The money wasreturned to him, and the newsdealer wrote a note to Quillsmaster, telling him that the magazine had not come.
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LXIV. WIEK. This dog was unique in his way. He was a great petof the grandmother in the family where he belonged. Sheattended to the feeding of the chickens and gathering theeggs. The dog was accustomed to following her whenshe went after the eggs with the basket. Some of thenests were under bushes, and difficult to reach. The grand-mother taught Wirk to go under the bushes after theeggs, which he enjoyed doing, and every day, when thefirst hen began to cackle, indicating that she had depos- IN PROSE AND RHYME. 123 ited an egg in the nest, Wirk would jump almost as highas a fence, and run to the grandmother, and pull ather dress, trying to let her know that it was time to goafter the eggs, as he heard a cackle. The grandmotherconcluded she could teach him to take the basket andget the eggs. She gave him the basket, and pointed to-wards the hennery, giving him to understand what shewished him to do. Wirk comprehended her meaning, andat once bounded off at a furious rate, and gathered t