Bob A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society, by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1831 At rest but on alert, the Newfoundland fills up the canvas, large head poised, both fore- legs dangling over a granite quay. A band of birds (gulls? terns?) glide through skies of gray. More green is the sea which laps to rust a ring awaiting boats. Such colour flecks the coat of Bob himself—thick, coarse, slick, varying from light to dark as breeders always note. How fitting that a dog once rescued from a shipwreck should save men—twenty-three in fourteen years! How odd that floods…
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