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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
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carriage would he order if he had to go a block. Eeno was almost as broad as he was long, had a mellowvoice and liquid eyes. He was always kept in the mostexquisite condition—a baby could not! have been moredelicately dressed and groomed than Reno was. His mis-tress took great delight and pride in showing him toher friends and pointing out his admirable traits and ac-complishments. One of the most remarkable things hewas taught to do was to announce the arrival of guestsand the number—if one came, he would bark once, iftwo came together he would bark twice, and so on, no mat-ter if there were a dozen. Reno wore a collar set with 66 DOGS OF ALL NATIONS brilliants. He also had a. cover of real lace, extendingfrom his collar back to the middle of his body, whichwas fastened to his collar and belt. It made him lookvery picturesque and aristocratic. One of his peculiar-ities was, he never associated with other dogs. As for com-mon dogs, he would glance at them with scorn and con-tempt.
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XXIII. TAKNO AND JYP. They were comrades ever in sunshine and in storm And always kept together to save each other from harm. In a hamlet near a city situated at one end of a mostpicturesque valley stretching far away in a beautiful out-line, with rugged, rocky hills on either side, and trees scat-tered here and there, where the soil was deep enough forthe roots to hold, and underbrush covering a large por-tion of the hills, was the home of Henry Dobbs, a gar-dener. He supplied many families with vegetables andfarm products, which he carried to the city in a wagon IN PROSE AMD RHYME. 67 drawn by a goat—afterwards a dog was hitched withthe goat. This was to the casual observer a most incon-gruous team. But the dog and goat were congenial andfriendly. When the goat drew the wagon alone the dogwould go alongside the goat, as if to comfort himwhile drawing the load, which was frequently heavier thanhe should have been compelled to haul. Henry Dobbsnoticed the strange and peculiar friend

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