Cited by E. Leuty Collins and Mrs. Victor Campbell, How to Save Our Dogs (London: Gray's Inn Press, c.1914).
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'Mr George R. Sims, His Little Dog Flash, and the Canine Nurses' Institute.

The following is reprinted from the Referee (Mustard and Cress) of January 5, 1913.

"Christmas is over, and now that it is a last years' event I can look back upon it calmly. As it turned out I had a very happy Christmas indeed, but at one time it looked as though I was going to spend a very anxious one. My little dog Flash, who is my friend by day and my guard by night - he always goes to the midnight post with me and sometimes sees me safely round the Park to the three a.m. post - was taken suddenly and seriously ill two days before Christmas. Mr. Alfred Sewell, the famous veterinary surgeon, and the greatest dog doctor in the world, heard of the illness, and though he had been travelling night and day from Rome, came to see him before going to bed. Flah had symptoms which made isolation a wise precaution, so he was sewn up in cotton wool, a bronchitis kettle was placed on the fire for his accommodation, Valentine's Extract was administered every two hours and brandy every three hours, and we sat up with him all night.

"The next day, Mr. Sewell had to go to Paris, so his partner, Mr. Cousens, came and broke it to us gently that there were symptoms of distemper. Belle Brocade was promptly borne off to Hampstead in a taxi to be out of the danger zone, and as we could not go on sitting up all night with the invalid, a trained nurse was obtained from Mrs. Leuty Collin's Canine Nurses' Institute at 45, Barrinton-road, Brixton. We decorated Opposite-the-Ducks with holly and miseltoe without uch enthusiasm, and every card that came to wish us a Merry Christmas added a pang to the situation.

"But on Christmas Eve the clouds lifted. Mr. Alfred Sewell was able to assure us that th symptoms, bad as they [83-84] were, were not those of distemper. Belle Brocade was borne back in triuph to her home, and from that moment Flash began to improve, and to-day, thanks to the skill and attention Messrs. Sewell and Cousens and the splendid nursing of Miss Marion Shaw, the little dog is out of danger. The shadow of a domestic tragedy was lifted from Opposite-the-Ducks as the new year dawned. - Dagonet."' (83-84)