The “Medium Biscotti”

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Writes Professor Norrie Epstein:

Austin Jagodynski’s imaginary dog for Dogs and Their Humans, the “Medium Biscotti,” is based on the dog in Chekhov’s short story, “Kashtanka.”

The story begins thus:

A YOUNG dog, a reddish mongrel, between a dachshund and a “yard-dog,” very like a fox in face, was running up and down the pavement looking uneasily from side to side. From time to time she stopped and, whining and lifting first one chilled paw and then another, tried to make up her mind how it could have happened that she was lost.