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EBOOK, A DOG OF FLANDERS ***


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A DOG OF FLANDERS
BY
LOUISA DE LA RAME
(OUIDA)
_ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR BY_
MARIA L. KIRK

ILLUSTRATIONS
NELLO, AWAKENED FROM HIS SLEEP, RAN TO HELP WITH THE REST
THEN LITTLE NELLO TOOK HIS PLACE BESIDE THE CART
NELLO DREW THEIR LIKENESS WITH A STICK OF CHARCOAL
THE PORTALS OF THE CATHEDRAL WERE UNCLOSED AFTER THE MIDNIGHT MASS
A DOG OF FLANDERS
A STORY OF NOEL
[Illustration]

Nello and Patrasche were left all alone in the world.
They were friends in a friendship closer than brotherhood. Nello was a
little Ardennois--Patrasche was a big Fleming. They were both of the same
age by length of years, yet one was still young, and the other was already
old. They had dwelt together almost all their days: both were orphaned and
destitute, and owed their lives to the same hand. It had been the
beginning of the tie between them, their first bond of sympathy; and it
had strengthened day by day, and had grown with their growth, firm and
indissoluble, until they loved one another very greatly. Their home was a
little hut on the edge of a little village--a Flemish village a league
from Antwerp, set amidst flat breadths of pasture and corn-lands, with
long lines of poplars and of alders bending in the breeze on the edge of
the great canal which ran through it.
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