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 what he had seen, imagining what he had not seen, lust mastered him so mightily, that the sap within him effervesced; his lips grew full and thick, his flesh quivered with excitement, and his rod grew so big and stiff that it almost slit up his old worn-out breeches and thrust itself out of the gap. With one hand he caught hold of it and squeezed it with all his might, as if to still its fluttering; he laid his other hand on the head of the ugly mangymongrel basking in the sun at his side.

Is there any transmission of emotion between a man and his dog.

Who can tell!

Thought transference dates only since yesterday.

Anyhow a dog has a keener sight, a keener ear and a keener smell than we have; besides his brain is not muddled with German metaphysics.

The dog had hitherto been slumbering peaceably, only waking now and then, to bite the fleas that were harassing him, or to snap at some tediously buzzing fly. Hardly had the master's hand been laid upon the animal's