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Canine Friendship.
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Pylades seize each other by the throat, so that their hair goes flying to the winds, and even torrents of water will scarcely separate them.

The world is full of such friendships. One would not be far wrong if one said of friends, as they are now-a-days, that they are almost all alike in respect to their friendship. To listen to them, you would imagine they were perfectly unanimous. But just throw them a bone; they will behave exactly like our dogs.[1]


  1. Kenevich says that this fable, which appeared in May, 1815, was suggested by he proceedings of the Congress of Vienna.