Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Dogs and Their Friends. [ARTICLE]

Dogs and Their Friends.

It was Dr. John Drown of Kd in boro, I think, who spoke in sincere sympathy of the man who “led a dog-less life.” It was Mr. “Josh Billings,” I know, who said that in the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot ; buy, to wit: the wag of a dog’s tail. And i it was Prof. John C. Van Dyke who declared the other day, in reviewing the artistic caroer of Landseer, that he made his dogs too human. It was the great C reator himself who made dogs too human —so human that sometimes they put humanity to shame. I have been the friend and confidant of three dogs, who helped to humanize me for the space of a quarter of a century, and who had souls to be saved, I am sure; and when I cross the Stygian River, I I expect to find on the other shore a trio of dogs wagging their tails almost off in their joy at my coming, and with honest tongues hanging out to lick my hands and my feet. And then lam going, with these faithful, devoted dogs at my heels, to talk dogs over with Dr. John Brown, Sir Edwiu Landseer, and Mr. Josh Billings. * She—l retdly don’t th'nk I shall take part again in theatricals; I always feel as though I were making a fool of myself. He—Oh, everybody thinks thatl “I’m going to be President some day," said Willie, proudly. “Papa laid r might." I