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from his day’s work, he slunk to his basket in my
bedroom where he knew he was in relative safety.
As my practice increased it became more and
more difficult to snatch time for our usual Sunday
afternoon romp in the Bois de Boulogne. Dogs
as well as men must have an occasional sniff at
Mother Earth to keep up their spirits. There is
nothing like a brisk walk among friendly trees be
it even the half-tamed trees of the Bois de
Boulogne, and an occasional game of hide and seek
among the thickets with a stray acquaintance.
One day, as we were strolling down a side alley
enjoying each other’s company, we suddenly
heard far behind us a desperate panting and
wheezing accompanied by fits of coughing and
choking. I thought it was a case of asthma but
Tom diagnozed it at once as a case of a
half-suffocated small bulldog or pug approaching at
full speed and imploring us with his last breath
to wait for him. A minute later Loulou sank
down half-dead at my feet, too fat to breathe, too
exhausted to speak, his black tongue almost
fallen out from his mouth, his blood-shot eyes
protruding from their sockets with joy and emotion.
“Loulou! Loulou!” a despairing voice
screamed from a coupé driving past on the high
road.
“Loulou! Loulou!” called out a footman
running towards us behind the thickets. The
footman said he was escorting the Marquise and
Loulou on their usual five minutes constitutional
by the side of the carriage when Loulou suddenly
began to sniff furiously in all directions and
cantered off with such a speed through the bushes
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