The Vintage Dog Scrapbook - The English Springer Spaniel

Various

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

The Dog Scrapbook: The English Springer Spaniel Edition is a collection of the best writings on the charming world of dogs and dog ownership, including everything from essays and anecdotes, to poems and literary excerpts. The book is illustrated throughout by a range of vintage photographs of the breed, drawn from our library of extremely scarce and sought-after breed books. The perfect gift for the canine-inclined. "With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to end." Crabbe.

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’