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Literature
A. P. Terhune, Bruce, New York, 1920, illustrated as the cover.
Terhune was popular for his novels both relating to the adventures of his beloved collies and his time spent as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels. His books were chiefly illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse.
Terhune wrote of 'Bruce':
'She was beautiful. And she had a heart and a soul--which were a curse. For without such a heart and soul, she might have found the tough life-battle less bitterly hard to fight.
But the world does queer things--damnable things--to hearts that are so tenderly all-loving and to souls that are so trustfully and forgivingly friendly as hers.
Her "pedigree name" was Rothsay Lass. She was a collie--daintily fragile of build, sensitive of nostril, furrily tawny of coat. Her ancestry was as flawless as any in Burke's Peerage.
If God had sent her into the world with a pair of tulip ears and with a shade less width of brain-space she might have been cherished.'