I have lost, within these last few days, a little bull-dog. He had just completed the sixth month of his brief existence. He had no history. His intelligent eyes opened to look out upon the world, to love mankind, then closed again on the cruel secrets of death. The friend who presented me with him had given him, perhaps by antiphrasis, the startling name of Pelleas. Why rechristen him? For how can a poor dog, loving, devoted, faithful, disgrace the name of a man or an imaginary hero?"
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I have lost, within these last few days, a little bull-dog. He had just completed the sixth month of his brief existence. He had no history. His intelligent eyes opened to look out upon the world, to love mankind, then closed again on the cruel secrets of death. The friend who presented me with him had given him, perhaps by antiphrasis, the startling name of Pelleas. Why rechristen him? For how can a poor dog, loving, devoted, faithful, disgrace the name of a man or an imaginary hero?"
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Add this copy of Our Friend the Dog to cart. $37.00, very good condition, Sold by Grey Matter Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hadley, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1913 by Dodd, Mead & Company.
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Seller's Description:
Cecil Alden. Very Good in Good jacket. First edition thus, from Dodd, Mead & Co. Text and illustrations are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are age toned. There is a small card with a gift inscription glued to the first free end page. Binding is sturdy. There is a tiny bookseller's ticket glued inside the back cover. Dust jacket is good only-the front flap is detached from the front panel of the dust jacket and the front panel is detached from the spine. All the pieces of the dust jacket are still present. Dust jacket is edgeworn, with chips missing from both the top and bottom edges. There is a water stain at the top corner of the front panel of the dust jacket with a small corresponding stain on the front cover. This stain does not bleed through to the inside of the book. 67pp.
