Thank you, Heather.  That's the right picture.  He looks like a mix to me, too, but I'm no dog expert and I thought I should ask!  --susan

Susan K. Harris

Hall Professor of American Literature

University of Kansas

Author of God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902

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From: Mark Twain Forum [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Heather Morgan [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 2:17 PM
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Subject: Re: Breed: Query

Thank you for that, Harold. Made me smile on a bad day.
I have a postcard=C2=A0showing the Twain family sitting on the Ombra at the=
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Hartford House, 1885. The dog's name on the card is Hash. And to me he=20
looks like a mix (Heinz 57 as we say in England)
Heather Morgan.
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=C2=A0On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 08:51 AM, Hal Bush wrote:
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=C2=A0> as to the breed of the dog -- did that ever get answered?  Because =
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> have it from a definitive source:
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> My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a
> Presbyterian.
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> first line from A DOG'S TALE
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> by Mark Twain
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> Prof. Harold K. Bush
> Professor of English
> 3800 Lindell
> Saint Louis University
> St. Louis, MO  63108
> 314-977-3616 (w); 314-771-6795 (h)
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