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Show "Tail" of Great Sacrifice at the Siege of Pari3 When Sir Anthony Hope was a little boy he was struck with admiration admi-ration of a lovely lady who had u larjje retriever dog a henutiful animal, an-imal, but with the merest stump of a tall. On Inquiry, he was told that the dog. his master and mistress, hod all been through the siege of Paris In 1871 and that when famine became acute a painful question arose that ! vitally concerned the dog. The dilemma di-lemma was solved by chopping off the dog's tall, making soup from It nnd giving hlin the bone I Whereby all three were saved. In relating th story In his "Slein-orles "Slein-orles and Notes." Mr. Hope says he hopes the tale Is true because It Is so picturesque, hut adds that "the lady was vivacious." |