Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 51306-h.htm or 51306-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51306/51306-h/51306-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51306/51306-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/dogdayorangelinheman Transcriber’s note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). A DOG DAY or The Angel in the House by WALTER EMANUEL Pictured by Cecil Aldin [Publisher Logo] Published by R.H.Russell. New York. 1902. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1902, by William Heinemann. All rights reserved. Entered at Stationers Hall, London, England. Entered at the Library of Congress, Washington, U.S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO W. W. JACOBS BECAUSE HE LIKED IT [Small Decoration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A DOG DAY OR THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE A.M. 7 Woke up feeling rather below par, owing to disturbed rest. Hardly enough energy to stretch myself. In the middle of the night a strange man came in by the kitchen window, very quietly, with a bag. I chummed up to him at once. He was nice to me, and I was nice to him. He got me down a piece of meat that I could not reach myself. While I was engaged on this, he took a whole lot of silver things and put them into the bag. Then, as he was leaving, the brute—I believe, now, it was an accident—trod on my toe, making me yelp with pain. I bit him heartily, and he dropped his bag, and scurried off through the window again. My yelping soon woke up the whole house, and, in a very short time, old Mr. Brown and young Mr. Brown appear. They at once spot the bag of silver. They then declare I have saved the house, and make no end of fuss with me. I am a hero. Later on Miss Brown came down and fondled me lots, and kissed me, and tied a piece of pink ribbon round my neck, and made me look a fool. What’s the good of ribbon, I should like to know? It’s the most beastly tasting stuff there ever was. [Illustration] [Illustration] 8:30. Ate breakfast with difficulty. Have no appetite. 8:35. Ate kittens’ breakfast. 8:36.