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Show Dog Saved Browning Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Bar-rett did not elope alone. Miss Barrett's Bar-rett's lap dog went along. "Not because the lovers wanted it particularly," Dr. Andreas Bard Informed In-formed the Kansas City Browning society so-ciety at a luncheon, "but because they were afraid to leave it behind. One bark would have spoiled everything. Miss Barrett's father disapproved of the Intended marriage. "Think of it the future of Browning Brown-ing poetry resting with a little dog. If that little dog had yapped, very likely there would have been no Browning society and, what is worse, none of those exquisite poems written by Mr. and Mrs. Browning after their j marriage." Kansas City Star. |