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Dogs are expert in judging human quality. With a single sniff at a man's trouser-leg, they determine his social standing; one leap against his chest is enough to inform them of his character. It is more difficult fora man to judge of the excellences of a dog. He requires paraphernalia-ropes, lights, leashes, a specially constructed pen, an exhaustive training; often his fellows gather in great packs to observe his judgments, which they confirm with shrill murmurs or deride with rasping growls. Last week such a display took place in Manhattan at the annual dogshow...
...minds of men now grown to gray hair, which it lacks today? There are thousands, who would like to slip back the years, and go walking with the rest across the yard, and into Memorial. They would like to hear the clatter of the dishes, like to sniff the faint, elusive fragrance of cooking, like to see the dusky waiter come shuffling down the long aisle, miraculously balancing seven plates of food on his arm and only occasionally dropping...
...hunters had been asked to sniff about for two Republican funds in addition to the regular Party budget ?one fund the care of bankers, the other of manufacturers and business men. Mr. Grundy vowed ignorance of such funds. So did the other three Pennsylvanians, one Nathan T. Folwell (dress goods), Samuel M. Vauclain (Baldwin locomotives), Edward T. Stotesbury (banks) ; but Mr. Vauclain became involved in an explanation of a $10,000 contribution which his company had made to an organization (The American Economic Institute) whose frankly admitted aim was " to protect the railroads against improper legislation...
...fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...
...gentleman I am about to introduce," says the toastmaster, "needs no introduction from me." Nothing could sum up better the preliminaries of today's little debate with our neighbor in New Haven and his dog. There are those who turn up their noses and sniff at the idea of keeping a bull-dog, but years of experience with our old acquaintance and many close encounters, when we have come over the fence minus the fringes of our coat-tails, have taught us only respect for him, especially when we go over to play in his back yard...