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[Illustration]
OUR FRIEND THE DOG
BY
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
AUTHOR OF "THE LIFE OF THE BEE," ETC.
TRANSLATED BY
ALEXANDER TEIXEIRA DE MATTOS
ILLUSTRATED BY
CECIL ALDEN

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
1913
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY THE CENTURY CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY
Published, October, 1913


OUR FRIEND THE DOG
I

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?
Pelleas had a great bulging, powerful forehead, like that of Socrates or
Verlaine; and, under a little black nose, blunt as a churlish assent, a
pair of large hanging and symmetrical chops, which made his head a sort
of massive, obstinate, pensive and three-cornered menace.
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