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Title: ... Landseer : a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924 Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1878
Subjects: Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 Horses
Publisher: Boston, Mass. New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
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anger to his charge, and no suspicious char-acter is allowed to molest. It is possible to train such dogs to all sorts ofuseful service. In their native country of New-foundland they do the work of horses, and har-nessed to carts or sledges draw heavy loads. Theylearn to fetch and carry baskets, bundles, and letters,and are quick, reliable messengers. Perhaps their most striking peculiarity is theirfondness for the water; they take to it as naturallyas if it were their proper element. They are notonly strong swimmers, but also remarkable divers,sometimes keeping their heads under the surfacefor a considerable time. Nature seems specially tohave fitted them for the rescue of the drowning,and in this humane caUing they have made a noblerecord. Innumerable stories are told of people, accident-ally falling from boats, bridges, or piers, who havebeen brought safely to land by these dog heroes.The dog seizes the person by some part of the cloth-ing, or perhaps by a limb, and with the weight
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o 6 is fJ A MEMBER OF THE HUMANE SOCIETY 53 dragging at his mouth, makes his way to the shore.He seems to take great pains to hold the burden asgently as possible, keeping the head above waterwith great sagacity. Some one has told o£ seeing adog rescue a drowning canary, holding it so lightlyin his mouth that it was quite uninjured. It is in his capacity as a life saver that the New-foundland dog of our picture is represented, calledby the pleasant jest of the painter, A DistinguishedMember of the Humane Society. Surely no mem-ber of the honorable body could be more efficientthan he in that good cause. He lies at the endof a stone jetty, his fore paws hanging over its edgea Kttle above water level. Nothing can be seenbehind him but the gray sky, with sea gulls flyingacross: against this background the massive headstands out grandly. He seems to look far out tosea, as if following the course of a distant vessel.A gentle lifting of the ears shows how alert is hisattention; he is consta

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