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Show THIS FELLOW IS I REAL DOG LOVER ' iIsHmmShSI I ST LOUIS Lota of people say they love dogs but they mean nice m I A. N. Nahlgian loves do? that I nobody else loves. The poorest, mangiest, most uo-prepossessing uo-prepossessing purp that prowls the alleys is ihe dog that Nahlgian is in-terested in-terested in. The dog that has no OH home la the dog that can find one with him. Nahlgian Is an Armenian He 11 speaks several languages, and spends his days In the scholarly and peaceful peace-ful amtospher of his little second hand bookshop. At night he goes J home to the greatest collection of miscellaneous, misfit, mongrel, ragtag, rag-tag, bobtail specimens of canlnlty that ever was assembled. He has picked them up on the streets; he has found them moan- I Ing on deserted doorsteps; he has rescued them from the river or the dog catcher; and he keeps them because be-cause nobody else will keep them. He has done this for vears. 'Why'' I asked. "They would haunt me if I didn't," he answered simply. 1 |