Excerpt from Pierrot, Dog of Belgium The children called him Pierrot from the first. That is, of course, no proper name for a Flemish dog, but you see Mere Marie had come from Dinant, where almost every body speaks French, and she had been taught French in school. Besides, she had French friends in Brussels and was very fond of everything French and warm and south ern. So she had often told the children stories about Harlequin and Columbine and Pierrot; and when they saw what a comical, clumsy little fellow the puppy was, and how much he looked as though he wore big, baggy breeches, Henri called him drfile Pierrot, and wee Lisa clapped her fat little hands and laughed shrilly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.