Introduction / B. Johns -- And so to Medve ; Memorial / J. Thurber -- Cleo for short / B. Atkinson -- Another sort of love story / L. Wainwright -- Memories / J. Galsworthy -- The most beautiful girl in the world / S. Bing -- Obituary / E.B. White -- Wrinkle and I / R. Santee -- Dog's death / J. Updike -- Recalling some dogs / J. Burroughs -- What's in a name? / M. Ivins -- Dogs of Malabar Farm-- and before / L. Bromfield -- Preface / B. Brown -- Where to bury a dog / B.H. Lampman -- Lucy never had a bone to pick-- she loved unconditionally / R.P. Coughlin -- A very good dog is what she was / S. Rubenstein -- Some Sunnybank dogs / A.P. Terhune -- The soul of a dog / D. Pinkwater -- Epitaphs-- and such / W. Watson ... [et al.] -- Mascot of the Texas / P. Schubert -- Your dog dies / R. Carver -- Requiem for a fighting spirit / B. Johns -- The most notorious fighter in Elkhart / K. Rexroth -- Fred, a dog gone but not forgotten / T.M. Boyd -- Death of an old dog ; Dandy / W.H. Hudson -- Lines to a Yorkshire terrier / T.S. Eliot -- Bruno / E. Carpenter -- Snapshot of Rex / J. Thurber -- Another chain / M. Rosen --

(Cont'd) The death of Golaud / G. LeBlanc-Maeterlinck

The old dog / J. Cheever

Repositories of confidence / E.J. Kahn, Jr.

Toodles doesn't understand / G.M. White

Sandy is gone / R. & M. Howard

"Hey, Spot!" / R. Creeley

Bedfellows / E.B. White

The house-dog's grave

Haig's grave / R. Jeffers

R.I.P. Amanda, 1983-1994 / A.R. Hunt

Coping with death of a loved one / T. Stienstra

Sweet dog, gone / A.T. Villegas

The last will and testament of Silverdene Emblem O'Neill / E. O'Neill.