Author(s): E V Lucas
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 194
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Language: English
Date Published: 2018-09-07
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 13mm
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Illustrations: 7 Illustrations; Illustrations, black and white

Excerpt from Variety Lane In any properly organized world the span of man and dog would coincide; and particularly so in this world, where loyalty among human creatures is not too easy to find, and moods among men and women are so common and embarrassing, and where so much mischief is done by talk. The dog, being always faith ful, and always the same, and always dumb, is the perfect companion; and a dog's life is so short. One cannot count on more than five or six years of a dog at his best - or I would rather say at her best, for bitches are my favourites, especially spaniels; and in these days of motor-cars one cannot, of course, count on any thing at all. Let me, however, not be unjust even to oil cans, ' as sarcastic drivers of horse cabs call the taxis which perplex and beat them. My last dog to die - a very perfect lady from Pekin - after having, by a series of miracles so frequent and so amazing as to convince us of her immortality, escaped a thousand automobiles, met her death at the wheel of a plodding baker's cart, innocent alike of speed or sudden evolu tions. Fate had so willed it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.