Produced by David Edwards, Paul Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [ Transcriber's Note: Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as possible, including inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation. Some corrections of spelling and punctuation have been made. They are listed at the end of the text. OE ligatures have been expanded. Italic text has been marked with _underscores_. ] [Illustration] LAD: A DOG [Illustration: (_From a photograph by Lacy Van Wagenen_)] LAD: A DOG BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 FIFTH AVENUE Copyright 1919 By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY _All Rights Reserved_ _First Printing, April, 1919_ _Second Printing, June, 1919_ _Third Printing, July, 1919_ _Fourth Printing, August, 1919_ _Fifth Printing, August, 1919_ _Sixth Printing, August, 1919_ _Seventh Printing, August, 1919_ _Eighth Printing, August, 1919_ _Ninth Printing, August, 1919_ _Tenth Printing, August, 1919_ _Eleventh Printing, December, 1919_ _Twelfth Printing, December, 1919_ _Thirteenth Printing, December, 1919_ _Fourteenth Printing, December, 1919_ _Fifteenth Printing, December, 1919_ _Sixteenth Printing, December, 1919_ _Seventeenth Printing, December, 1919_ _Eighteenth Printing, August, 1921_ _Nineteenth Printing, March, 1922_ _Twentieth Printing, August, 1922_ _Twenty-first Printing, Sept., 1922_ _Twenty-second Pr'ting, Feb., 1923_ _Printed in the United States of America_ MY BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF Lad THOROUGHBRED IN BODY AND SOUL CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. HIS MATE 1 II. "QUIET!" 26 III. A MIRACLE OF TWO 49 IV. HIS LITTLE SON 74 V. FOR A BIT OF RIBBON 97 VI. LOST! 126 VII. THE THROWBACK 156 VIII. THE GOLD HAT 180 IX. SPEAKING OF UTILITY 218 X. THE KILLER 251 XI. WOLF 297 XII. IN THE DAY OF BATTLE 321 AFTERWORD 347 LAD: A DOG CHAPTER I HIS MATE Lady was as much a part of Lad's everyday happiness as the sunshine itself. She seemed to him quite as perfect, and as gloriously indispensable. He could no more have imagined a Ladyless life than a sunless life. It had never occurred to him to suspect that Lady could be any less devoted than he--until Knave came to The Place.