RAB AND HIS FRIENDS

I was bitten severely by a little dog when with my mother at Moffat Wells, being then three years of age, and I have remained bitten ever since in the matter of dogs. I remember that little dog... and were I allowed to search among the shades in the cynic Elysian fields, I could pick her out still. -from Our Dogs The 1858 short story Rab and His Friends-based on a true incident about a gray mastiff, Rab, and his relationship with an Edinburgh doctor and one of the doctors patients-is considered one of the finest examples of Victorian melodrama. It is also beautifully portrays the extraordinary insight author John Brown had into the canine temperament, it and other essays included here on Browns life with the faithful animals will enchant dog lovers. Also featured in this volume