On the first day of my arrival, Cousin Susan said at dessert, "John, now bring in the boys," and when I was expecting the advent of a number of unknown young cousins, the footman threw open the door, and volleys of little dogs rushed into the room, but all white spitzes except the Chowdy-Tow, a most comical Japanese.
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"Yes, and well named," said the captain, who was using his glass; "the land of mountain points-spitzes as they call them, or piz in North Italy among the mountains there."
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