Show SHE PREFERRED THE PEARLS perhaps that was reason for girls aversion to pets no I 1 don t want this griff griffon on you may send it back said tho girt girl siad giad aate 4 iler her father patted the priceless dog s rough head but why lie he stammered X keeping pets Is too brutal she replied 1 I cant can t seo see how a person ot of delicacy can keep pets it Is as bad y fc as living in a cemetery vault you get 7 a dog its is charming abt it matures it grows old in a few decrepit gray faced it dies then you get another doo dog and atch it also swiftly grow old and die with cats it is the same with birds it la is the same aunt jane has kept cat and dog and bird apts p ts all her life and ald her life has been one long succession of little pet funerals TRO T RO or three tl times es a month ever since I 1 can remember we have found hei in tears over the corpse of a french bull or over the fresh giave giace of a love bird or over oer the grotesque but reverent burial of an angora cat no for me I 1 desire to be surrounded with objects that make me forget old age decrepitude arid and death you may exchange the griffon it IE aou ou like papa for a string of small but perfect pearls |