DOG AS LIBRARIAN.
Professor Phelps, of Yale University, receives so many .books for review that lie runs a private circulating library with them. For librarian he has his -old dog~ Rufus. The books are. placed on a table just inside the front door, and the door is left on the latch so that friends and' neighbours may borrow or return volumes without ringing the bell. Rufus, a red setter, lies on a sofa near and watches. His master leaves it to him to see that no stranger runs off with the books, for he knows all who are allowed access to this library, and would bark if a stranger came in. Rufus is well known in literary circles. He has been petted by John Galsworthy, was a great friend of Joseph Conrad, and has been sat on (by mistake) by Thornton Wilder.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 8 (Supplement)
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142DOG AS LIBRARIAN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20922, 11 July 1931, Page 8 (Supplement)
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