Identifier: fountainwithjets00dav (find matches)
Title: The fountain : with jets of new meanings
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Davis, Andrew Jackson, 1826-1910 Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Spiritualism
Publisher: Boston : William White & Co. New York : American News Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e sorely temptedto become elated, pedantic, and self-sufficient. There is, said Ruskin, u in every animals eye a REASON IN ANIMALS. 55 dim foregleam of humanity, a flash of strange light,through which their life looks out and up to our greatmystery of command over them, and claims the fel-lowship of the creature if not of the soul. Man, in his high and true estate, is the animalssuperior both by organization and acquirement. Butman inverted, or with his faculties yet slumbering intheir easy cerebral beds, is frequently inferior to theanimals about him; of which unwelcome propositionlet me fortify you with evidence. A noble act per-formed by a dog isthus narrated: My oldest sonwas crossing the fieldsin the country, somedistance from anydwelling, when he waspursued by a largeand fierce dog belong-ing to the gentlemanwhose land he wascrossing. The lad wasalarmed, and ran forhis life. He struckinto a piece of woods,and the dog gained EVERT DOG IS ENTITLED TO HIS DAT. lip Oil Him, WUCn D.G
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56 JETS OF NEW MEANINGS. looked around to see how near the creature was, andtumbling over a stone, he pitched off a precipice andbroke his leg. Unable to move, and at the mercy ofthe beast, the poor fellow saw the dog coining downupon him, and expected to be seized and torn ; when,to his surprise, the dog came near and perceiving theboy wras hurt, he instantly wheeled about and went offfor aid which he could not render himself. There wasno one within reach of the childs voice, and he musthave perished there, or dragged his broken limb along,and destroyed it so as to render amputation necessary,if the dog did not bring him help. He held up hisleg, and it hung at a right angle, showing him plainlythe nature of his misfortune, and the necessity of lyingstill. The dog went off to the nearest house andbarked for help. Unable to arrest attention, he madeanother visit of sympathy to the boy, and then ran tothe house, there making such demonstrations of anxiety,that the family followed him to

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