Excerpt from Diomed: The Life, Travels, and Observations of a DogI may add that, in maturity, I discovered that this techiness of mother about being as good as anybody, was not peculiar to her, or even to Vir ginia dogs, but was a very common feeling among all animated nature in our locality.Some time ago, lying in master's library, I heard him reading the autobiography of a distinguished German poet, who prefixed to his memoir his pedi gree, and, discussing his parentage, said.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.