“My Christmas will be a whole lot wetter and merrier/If somebody sends me a six-weeks-old Boston terrier.”

In "E.B. White on Dogs," the famed author and essayist discusses man's best friend. Here are a few choice samples of White's writing on dogs.
“My Christmas will be a whole lot wetter and merrier/If somebody sends me a six-weeks-old Boston terrier.”
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