The Dog's Book
of Verse

Collected by

J. Earl Clauson

"'I never barked when out of season;
I never bit without a reason;
I ne'er insulted weaker brother,
Nor wronged by fraud or force another;'
Though brutes are placed a rank below,
Happy for man could he say so."

Boston
Small, Maynard & Company
Publishers

Copyright, 1916
By SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

TO
THE MEMORY OF
JACK,
AN AIREDALE


PREFACE