The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The English Springer Spaniel

Various

• Publisher: Vintage Dog Books
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473347175
• Print ISBN:
  9781447428442
• Subtopic: Literary Essays

A keepsake miscellany for the dog-minded, set among vintage photographs of the great flushing spaniel of the shooting field.

The Vintage Dog Scrapbook collects essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on dogs and the people who love them, and prints them among photographs of the English Springer Spaniel drawn from rare breed volumes in our library. The text is written for dogs in general; the pictures are the breed's alone.

Separated from the Cocker by the Kennel Club in 1902 - before which the two came from the same litters, sorted by size and quarry - the springer remains Britain's foremost flushing dog, and one of the busiest, muddiest, most cheerful animals ever to come through a hedge.

This edition features:

• Essays, anecdotes, poems and literary excerpts on dogs and dog owning
• Vintage photographs of the breed, taken from rare volumes in our own library
• A gift for the canine-inclined, and for the devotee of one particular working spaniel
• Short pieces made for dipping into, at any hour of the evening

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• My Dog
• Don’t Call a Man a Dog
• “For Richer, for Poorer”
• Courage and Cowardice
• My Dog is Dead
• The Old Dog
• Dogs, Too, Get Spring Fever
• The Dog’s Bill of Rights
• Seventeen Training Don’ts
• 30 Don’ts for Every Dog Owner
• A Dozen Dog Care Do’s
• The Dog Gives Training Advice to His Master
• A Dog’s Tragedy
• Dog Latin
• Cats versus Dogs
• The Friend of Man
• Have a Heart, Mr. Dog Owner
• In Praise of the Female
• Differences in Dogs
• The Dog in the Manger
• Why Own a Dog
• Breeder’s Code
• The Dogist’s Code
• The Dog and the Shadow
• The Dogs of Nile
• Welcoming the Dawn
• The Spirit of Sportsmanship
• “Ten Commandments” for the Dog Owner
• The Under Dog
• Beau’s Reply
• A Dog’s Prayer for His Master
• Still ‘Man’s Best Friend’
• The Miracle of Mating and Birth
• The Sixteen Principles of Dog Pedagogy
• Extract
• Good Dogs
• Dogs Can be Toughies
• The Dog as a Word Study in International Orthography
• Revenge
• Ted
• Why the World Likes Dogs
• No Room in Heaven for Dogs
• We are Vicars of God
• The Dog Issues ‘His’ Ten Commandments
• A Pleasing Kind of Insanity
• Pity the Sick Dog
• “Faithful Barking Ghost”
• The Difference
• Little Lost Pup
• My Dog and I
• Lost Dog
• The Faith of a Dog
• Observations of “Jay” upon the Five Great Wags. The Best Friends of Children and Men.
• “Now I Have a Friend”
• An Outcast in Hell
• The Dog in the Library
• The Best Dog
• Dog Language
• The Story of a Great Literary Gem
• Senator Vest’s Tribute to a Dog
• My Dog
• Tribute to Dog - 1200 A.D.
• The Power of the Dog
• Dogs as Companions
• Constancy
• A Proud Boast
• Little Dog Angel
• The Dogless Boy
• Pals
• The Little Black Dog
• Proverbs and Bits of Wisdom about Dogs
• Epitaph for a Small Dog
• Epitaph on a Favourite Dog
• Epitaph on a Dog’s Tombstone Near Chevy Chase, M.D., (1940)
• When the Dog’s Soul Comes through his Eyes
• How Benvenuto Cellini’s Dog Identified a Robber
• Rip Van Winkle’s Dog Wolf
• The Dog Under the Wagon
• Questions
• A Friendly Welcome
• To a Dog
• A Boy and a Dog
• Through Sunlit Fields
• For a Little Boy
• “Children-Dog Recipe”
• When Caesar Marched Behind his King
• On the Essential Attributes of a Dog Owner
• Dogs on the Roman Farm
• What Breed was It?
• ‘Away from Civilization, What Does One Need Most?’
• “On the Sly”
• The Home-Loving Dog
• Loyalty
• Like Child, Like Puppy
• Great Friend Maker
• Walking with a Dog has Extra Pleasure
• If You Can’t find the Perfect Man, Own a Dog
• When Dachs’ Eyes are Dim with Love
• My Old Hound Pack
• A Prayer for Animals
• The Dog Believed in Signs
• Cuvier On Dogs
• Rest in Peace
• The Lover of Dogs
• Loyalty
• Scotch Dog
• “My Pup”
• An Xmas Pup
• Going to the Dogs
• Mongrel Pup from the Dog Shop
• A Problem
• Christmas Puppies
• In Retrospect
• Napoleon in Exile Recalls an Incident of the Retreat from Moscow
• Scotland’s Burns on Dogs
• Scottish Novelist on Dogs
• To Blanco
• A Dog and a Man
• Argus
• Advice to a Dog
• Philosphers
• Quotes From Literature
• Italian Proverbs on Cane (Dog)
• Doggy Advice in Doggerel
• Doggerel
• Tribute to a Spanish Breed
• Dog Becomes ‘First Friend’
• My Comforter
• The Dead Boy’s Portrait and his Dog
• Extract from ‘The Tale of Your Dog — His Origin and Need’