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JAN
A DOG AND A ROMANCE
BY
A.J. DAWSON
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Published by Arrangement with Harper & Brothers
JAN: A DOG AND A ROMANCE Copyright, 1915, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published October, 1915
_CONTENTS_
I. HOW FINN CAME HOME
II. NUTHILL AND SHAWS
III. INTRODUCING THE LADY DESDEMONA
IV. THE OPEN-AIR CALL
V. DESDEMONA'S WANDERINGS
VI. HOW DESDEMONA FOUND HER NEST
VII. DESDEMONA FORGETS HER MANNERS
VIII. FINN IS ENLIGHTENED
IX. THE LONE MOTHER
X. FAMILY LIFE--AND DEATH
XI. JAN GOES TO NUTHILL
XII. SOME FIRST STEPS
XIII. SAPLING DAYS
XIV. WITH REFERENCE TO DICK VAUGHAN
XV. JAN'S FIRST FIGHT
XVI. GOOD-BY TO DICK
XVII. JAN BEFORE THE JUDGES
XVIII. FIT AS A TWO-YEAR-OLD
XIX. DISCIPLINE
XX. SUSSEX TO SASKATCHEWAN
XXI. INTRODUCING SOURDOUGH
XXII. MURDER!
XXIII. THE FIGHT ON THE PRAIRIE
XXIV. PROMOTION
XXV. JAN GOES ON HIS TRAVELS
XXVI. THE RULE OF TRACE AND THONG
XXVII. MUTINY IN THE TEAM
XXVIII. THE FEAST AND THE FASTER
XXIX. THE FIGHT IN THE WOODS
XXX. REAL LEADERSHIP
XXXI. THE COST OF INCOMPETENCE
XXXII. JAN OBEYS ORDERS AT THE GREAT DIVIDE
XXXIII. BACK TO THE TRAIL
XXXIV. THE PEACE RIVER TRAIL
XXXV. THE END OF JAN'S LONE TRAIL
XXXVI. "SO LONG, JAN!"
XXXVII. BACK TO REGINA
XXXVIII. THE FALL OF SOURDOUGH
XXXIX. HOW JAN CAME HOME