Quattro! More from the DOG Patch.

Some more offerings in our fourth effort in these pages to get rid of this damned dander. It's still up! Here in the DOG Patch, D is for Dander, and the dander, in spite of smatterings of good new lately, has still got itself up.

Vive le Québec! Nodbody's taking sides in Canadian separatism, if it's still brewing north of the border. But a certain sense of fairness surely prevails, and we have

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