New Edition
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CALVERT SMITH

BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1908

Copyright, 1899, 1908,
By Byrd Spilman Dewey,

All rights reserved.
Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.

THIS LITTLE SKETCH
Is dedicated
TO ALL WHO HAVE EVER LOVED ONE OF THOSE FAITHFUL
CREATURES OF WHOM WE, IN OUR IGNORANCE
AND VANITY, ARE WONT TO SPEAK AS
"THE LOWER ANIMALS."

B. S. D.