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Most pups love to play, whether it鈥檚 chasing balls, engaging in a game of tug-of-war, or tearing that squeaky toy to smithereens …. Once they鈥檝e grown up, animals rarely play, simply because they must focus on finding territories, food, and mates. Nor do they often play with animals outside their own kind. But dogs seem to bring out the jovial nature of many species, from humans to turtles to chickens鈥攊nteractions that are well documented on YouTube.

At last our Tommy got his bearings, … and business kept him hard at work. He was evidently in his right place now, and soon throve finely, to his father’s great contentment; for his jovial presence pervaded the once quiet office like a gale of fresh wind, and his lively wits found managing men and affairs much more congenial employment than studying disease, or playing unseemly pranks with skeletons.

On September 18 and 19, starting before sunrise and finishing after sunset, Wilkes took 4,882 photographs of the art installation In America: Remember, an exhibit that aims to convey the enormity of the country鈥檚 pandemic losses …. To do so, Wilkes spent two days suspended 45 feet above the ground in a lift鈥攈igh enough for a bird鈥檚 eye view but low enough to descry people鈥檚 gestures and body language. He positioned the lift purposely: He wanted the National Museum of African American History and Culture 鈥� to be a focal point because 鈥渟o many people of color were dramatically impacted by this virus.鈥�

Having thus prepared all things as well as I was able, I set sail on the twenty-fourth day of September, 1701, at six in the morning; and, when I had gone about four leagues to the northward, the wind being at southeast, at six in the evening I descried a small island about half a league to the northwest[.] I advanced forward, and cast anchor on the lee side of the island, which seemed to be uninhabited.

But the things that 鈥� Tom liked the most, were two great brazen Andirons that stood in the fireplace. To Tom these Andirons, though up to the night when our story begins he had never seen them move, seemed almost to live. They had big, round, good-natured faces, that shone like so much gold. Their necks were slight and graceful, but as they developed downward toward their handsome feet the Andirons grew more portly, until finally they came to look very much like a pair of amiable sea serpents without much length. Tom鈥檚 uncle said they looked like cats, with sunflowers for heads, swan necks for bodies, and very little of the cat about them save the claws.

[D]espite the sophistication of domestic heating at the height of Roman civilization, there is no evidence that they used andirons of any type. This omission can be easily explained by the fact that they did not have fireplaces; excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum have not brought any to light. However, at least one Romano-British andiron does survive, which was found at Colchester, England, and it is thought to be of the third century A.D.