Buff: A Collie, and Other Dog-Stories

“There are easier ways, you know, of showing how much inferior you are to a dog than by kicking him.””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“Humans had celebrated her recovery with presents, and he, watching, had imitated them. He had gone far and had toiled hard to bring her an offering that his canine mind deemed all-desirable.””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“Watch me do it, Jeff! Watch me do it, square!””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“This dog, Robin Adair, was the joy of Eve’s heart – or he had been, when her heart still could hold joy and not merely fever and delirium.””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“A dog-pound is not pleasant to look upon. It is little pleasanter to think upon. It is one of the needful evils of every large town – an evil that is needful to public health and to public safety, so say the city fathers.””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“He had failed. He had awakened with the sudden knowledge of his master’s peril. He had followed the urge of the call. And all at once he had realized that for some reason he cold not hope to lead his mistress to the man who so sorely needed her aid. Perplexed, heartsick, he had crawled back; helpless to do more.””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“Then, over the smugly complacent land, rang a bugle call. Half the world was sick unto death with the Hun pestilence, and America alone could stay the hideous disease’s assault on humanity. America alone could cure a dying world. To achieve this Heaven-sent miracle, the lives of thousands of brave men were needed. An at the terrible blast of the bugle-call these men responded in the millions.Dick Snowden was one of them.””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“Up to this time everybody had moved on tiptoe about the sick-room, and had talked in undertones. But Jock was no respecter of silence. He gamboled and barked to his heart’s content. Partly amused and partly annoyed by his bumptiousness, Klyda found herself for the first time unable to sink at will into that dreamy apathy of hers. It is hard to dream, when a tiny furry whirlwind is charging at one or is professing to believe that one’s white fingers are a mortal foe to be nibbled and threatened.””

— Albert Payson Terhune

“A dog is only a dog. But a collie is – a collie. Says the scotch proverb:“A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman!””

— Albert Payson Terhune