------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. [Illustration] THE HEART OF A DOG [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Heart of a Dog ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE Illustrated by MARGUERITE KIRMSE [Illustration: YOUNG MODERNS] DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, N. Y. COPYRIGHT, 1924 BY DOUBLEDAY & CO., INC. CL _Copyright, 1921, 1922, 1923 and 1924, By George H. Doran Company Copyright, 1920, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1921, by International Magazine Company Harpers’ Bazar_ THE HEART OF A DOG PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA _My book is dedicated to_ MY FRIEND MARK SAXTON THE ONLY BOY WHOM THE CONSERVATIVE SUNNYBANK COLLIES HAVE HONOURED WITH THEIR FRIENDSHIP, AND WHOM THEY HAVE ACCEPTED AS A LOVED PLAYFELLOW CONTENTS PAGE ONE: Fox! 1 TWO: The Coming of Lad 43 THREE: The Meanest Man 67 FOUR: The Tracker 95 FIVE: “Youth Will Be Served!” 123 SIX: Lochinvar Bobby 143 SEVEN: “One Minute Longer” 187 EIGHT: Afterward 205 [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ONE: Fox [Illustration] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration] ONE: Fox! When the Stippled Silver Kennel, Inc., went into the wholesale raising of silver foxes for a world market, its two partners brought to the enterprise a comfortable working capital and an uncomfortable ignorance of the brain-reactions of a fox.