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    The Council of Dogs
    The Council of Dogs
    The Council of Dogs
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    The Council of Dogs

    By William Roscoe

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      The Council of Dogs - William Roscoe

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Council of Dogs, by William Roscoe

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      Title: The Council of Dogs

      Author: William Roscoe

      Release Date: March 9, 2010 [eBook #31466]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COUNCIL OF DOGS***

      E-text prepared by Chris Curnow, Diane Monico,

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

      (http://www.pgdp.net)

      FRONTISPIECE.

      The Council.

      THE

      COUNCIL OF DOGS.

      ILLUSTRATED WITH SUITABLE ENGRAVINGS.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED FOR J. HARRIS, SUCCESSOR TO E. NEWBERY, AT THE

      ORIGINAL JUVENILE LIBRARY, THE CORNER OF

      ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

      1808.

      H. Bryer, Printer,

      Bridge-Street, Blackfriars.

      THE

      COUNCIL OF DOGS.

      Why a Council of Dogs was convened on the Plain,

      The President Sheep Dog thus rose to explain.—

      "This meeting I call, to complain of misusage

      From the poets, who now a days have a strange usage

      Of leading up Insects and Birds to Parnassus,

      While, without rhyme or reason, unnotic'd they pass us.—

      Declare then those talents by which we may claim

      Some pretensions, I hope, to poetical fame.—

      I boast of whole legions, my voice who obey;

      Without me the Sheep, e'en the Shepherd, might stray—

      But no more of myself—Let each Dog of spirit

      Stand forward and modestly state his own merit.

      But I charge you be gentle, let's hear of no growling,

      No grinning, no snarling, no snapping, no howling."

      The Greyhound first rose, with a spring from his seat,

      Scarcely bending the grass, that grew under his

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