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Show PETS REMEMBERED IN RESTING PLACES Wreaths Placed on Tiny Graves in Cemetery ' LED HAM, Mass., Feb. II. Wreaths of evergreen placed on tiny rrmres'ftk Pin Ridge cemetery for cat! and dog bear testimony that former family pets are not forgotten. The cemetery, the only one for animals in this part Of the country. Is controlled by the Animal Ani-mal Kescue league and now contains 100 graves. The lot le located In a sunny little valley. In Its center with a background of green shrubbery Is a tablet "u remounted re-mounted by the statue of a white) poodle, sitting up as If begging; for attention. at-tention. The Inscription reads, Te the many dogs who have given tbef lives In the service of man." - The path from the road lead through a grape arbor and down run tic steps to a stone house. Her tn) master or mistress of a dead pot may rest while the grave ia being dug. J the winter when tho ground i too bard to admit buria.1. thr is a receiving re-ceiving vault where Ih body la kept until spring. There ) also a crema tury operated by the Animal Rescue league at a harg of a few dollars for each cremation. A plain granite cube over one grave Is marked: "In Memory of Master Billy Arils.' This Is ths lest reetinff place of the fluffy white terrier of ieorge Arlias, the actor. Billy died last winter while Mr. Arliss was playing; In Boston, and his owner bought a lol and erected the memorial. A little further on la the burial plot of "Fee," companion of Elixabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, the authoreoa. Fairy, a white Pomeranian, has her photograph imbeddea m a hxssBBssW and the epitaph reads: "Our Lime Blind Fairy. Passed from darknea into light, Easter, 1907." In an out of the way grave In t he-corner he-corner of the cemetery Is eugseted a story of feline devotiotf. . The dedica tion read a: "Dewy. He was only cat. but he was human enough to be off great comfort hour of gickneaa and pain." J |