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A Dog

The document is about a dog's perspective on humans. It describes how dogs have suffered punishments from humans like muzzles and leashes, but have also benefited from living with and observing the "only creature with reason, the most unreasonable of creatures" - humans. From the dog's point of view, humans engage in strange and amusing activities like fighting and singing in the same night, sleeping when they should be awake and vice versa. Dogs have watched humans build strong homes but fill them with noisy machines, and destroy land in some places but nurture it in others.
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A Dog

The document is about a dog's perspective on humans. It describes how dogs have suffered punishments from humans like muzzles and leashes, but have also benefited from living with and observing the "only creature with reason, the most unreasonable of creatures" - humans. From the dog's point of view, humans engage in strange and amusing activities like fighting and singing in the same night, sleeping when they should be awake and vice versa. Dogs have watched humans build strong homes but fill them with noisy machines, and destroy land in some places but nurture it in others.
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A DOG'S EYE VIEW OF MAN

BY
JAMES THURBER

If man has benefited immeasurably by his association with the dog, what, you may ask, has the dog got
out of it? His scroll has, of course, been heavily charged with punishments: he has known the muzzle,
the leash and the tether; he has suffered the indignities of the show bench, and the tin can on the tail,
the ribbon in the hair; his love life with the other sex of his species has been regulated by the frigid hand
of authority, his digestion ruined by the macaroons and marshmallows of doting women. The list of his
woes could be continued indefinitely. But he has also had his fun, for he has been privileged to live with
and study at close range the only creature with reason, the most unreasonable of creatures.

The dog has more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason
that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. The dog has long been bemused by the singular
activities and the curious practices of men, cocking his head inquiringly to one side, intently watching
and listening to the strangest goings-on the world. He has

seen men sing together and fight one another in the same evening. He has watched them go to bed
when it is time to get up, and get up when it is time to go to bed. He has observed them destroying the
soil in vast areas, and nurturing it in small patches. He has stood by while men built strong and solid
houses for rest and quiet, and then filled them with lights and bells and machinery. His sensitive nose,
which can detect what's cooking in the next township, has caught at one and the same time the
bewildering smells of the hospital and the munitions factory. He has seen men raise up great cities to
heaven and then blow them to hell.

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yfhcvc Kung ang tao ay nakikinabang nang napakalakas sa pamamagitan ng kanyang pakikipag-ugnayan sa aso,
ano, maaari mong tanungin, ay nakuha ang aso sa labas nito? Siyempre pa, ang kanyang scroll ay napinsala sa mga
parusa: alam niya ang sangkal, ang tali at ang tether; siya ay nagdusa ng mga indignities ng show bench, at ang lata
ay maaaring sa buntot, ang laso sa buhok; ang kanyang buhay ng pag-ibig sa iba pang mga sex ng kanyang species
ay na-regulated sa pamamagitan ng malamig na kamay ng kapangyarihan, ang kanyang panunaw na wasak ng
macaroons at marshmallows ng doting babae. Ang listahan ng kanyang mga kaguluhan ay maaaring magpatuloy
nang walang katapusan. Ngunit nasiyahan din siya, sapagkat siya ay may pribilehiyong mabuhay at mag-aral sa
malapit na hanay ang tanging nilalang na may dahilan, ang pinaka di-makatwiran sa mga nilalang.

Ang aso ay mas masaya mula sa Tao kaysa sa Tao ay nakuha out ng aso, para sa malinaw na maaaring patunayan na
dahilan na ang Man ay ang mas nakakatawa ng dalawang hayop. Ang aso ay matagal nang nag-aalala sa
pamamagitan ng mga pang-isahan na gawain at ng mga kakaibang gawi ng mga tao, na pinuputol ang kanyang ulo
na nagtatanong sa isang panig, na sinasadya na nanonood at nakikinig sa mga kakaibang pangyayari-sa mundo.
Mayroon siya
nakikita ang mga lalaki na kumanta nang magkasama at lumaban sa isa't isa sa parehong gabi. Napanood niya ang
mga ito na natutulog kapag oras na upang makakuha ng up, at makakuha ng up kapag oras na upang matulog.
Naobserbahan niya na sinisira nila ang lupa sa malawak na lugar, at inaalagaan ito sa maliliit na patches. Siya ay
nakatayo sa tabi habang ang mga lalaki ay nagtayo ng malakas at matatag na mga bahay para sa pamamahinga at
tahimik, at pagkatapos ay napuno sila ng mga ilaw at mga kampanilya at makinarya. Ang kanyang sensitibong ilong,
na nakikita ang kung ano ang pagluluto sa susunod na nayon, ay nahuli sa isa at sa parehong oras ang mga
bewildering smells ng ospital at ang mga pabrika ng munitions. Nakita niya ang mga tao na bumabangon ng mga
dakilang lungsod papunta sa langit at pagkatapos ay hipan sila sa impiyerno.

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