NE sometimes hears parents, of the kind that I fear will think Dick's little story only a bit of nonsense, reproach the little child who asks for a second helping of Christmas pud ding with being greedy as a dog. Dick has not yet told me the Opinion of his race of that other species which asserts that human affection and fidelity are virtues of the soul, but that these vir tues, when shown by dogs, proceed merely from instinct. I am inclined to believe, however, that there is current among those of our four-footed relations who have had a hard time of it a little saying which, in our speech, signifies selfish as a man. The author, who believes with Agassiz and Theodore Parker, that love and constancy in men and dogs proceed from the same high source, trusts that the supposititious doggie proverb will apply to none of the readers of Our Dick.

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