A BOOK TO LOVE
Dogs do iiot talk. No. But Mr. Eudyard Kipling, in his new book, "Thy- Servant, a Dog," has provided them with a language in whicii, I am sure, they think. This book is the autobiography of a Scotch _terrier, Boots, in "puppytalk." /You -will love Boots, and having read about him you will understand your own dog better. Boots tells or! his life at "Place-in-country"; how he killed a rat. '"I am a rreal dog! I have slew a rat"; of his doggy companions, Slippers and Eavagor, '' who wcre.Jiny true friend"; of own gods; of "Smallest"; of but you must read for yourselves. It is a delightful, tender, and humorous study of dog-life with a thread of sadness in it of a puppy who does not understand. "Please this is the. finish for always about Bavager and me and all those times," says Boots in farcwcl}. "Please I am a very small mis'able dog. . . .1 do.not understand. . . I do not understand." "PENNY PLAIN" (15). 'City. .' , '
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1931, Page 20
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169A BOOK TO LOVE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1931, Page 20
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