The Historic Newfoundland Dog
Breed Histories
A Tale of Black Beauties - Emma H. Mellencamp PhD. Art History '57
That Dog on the Postage Stamp - Edwin H. Morris 1925
What Color is a Newfoundland Dog and When? - Emma H. Mellencamp
The Artistic Newfoundland
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"Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland." - Josh Billings
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“Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, upon being saved by a Newfoundland after slipping on his ship and falling overboard. He did not know how to swim, and was kept above water by the dog until he could be rescued.
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"You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself that my father bought me. They are better than human beings, because they know but do not tell." - Emily Dickinson
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"A man is not a good man to me because he will feed me if I should be starving, or warm me if I should be freezing, or pull me out of a ditch if I should ever fall into one. I can find you a Newfoundland dog that will do as much." - Henry David Thoreau
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"Mrs. Darling loved to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbours; so, of course, they had a nurse. As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who had belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her." - J.M. Barrie
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"Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices." - Lord Byron