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Diomed: The Life, Travels, and Observations of a Dog (Classic Reprint)

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Author s Note I SUBMIT this book to the perusal of the public without anv apologies. I stand tor the dog. Whatever he thinks or says, which you think he could not think or say, put down to my score, good people. I know I have made him cover an unusual range. First of all, I know there will be those who, impatient at anv evidence of idleness in the life of a busy man, judge him to be a trifler by signs like this. Well be it so. I know of an instance where a distinguished Judge on the Court of Appeals of New Hampshire lost appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States, because in a suit against a man for killing a mink out of season, when it was chasing the geese of defendant, he delivered an opinion covering twentv-five pages of printed reports, in which he reviewed the whole law of justifiable killing in defence of person or property. It is a great opinion ;but it killed the prospects of the judge who delivered it, bv giving him the name of The Mink Judge. l-ide 53 N. H. 398, Aldrich V. Wright.) Without fearing that I imperil so great a prize, 1know the danger of committing ones name to authorship like this. Still, I am guiltv. And the verdict must be pronounced. I began the book for seven children of my own, disguising, under the story of their seven setter puppies, the desire to familiarize them with life in their native state as I knew her, and with people still there, but seldom heard of, who are the priceless jewels, almost hidden, amid the rubbish of her decav. Some good friends of ours read the manuscript, and flattered me with the idea that it might excite a more wide-spread interest than that of my own home circle. We all know how quickly a writer succumbs to that notion In my case persuasion was easy. And so I launched Diomed. If it does not fall stillborn, 1shall be surprised. If critics will only abuse it into notoriety, I shall be charme(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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