The dogs formed a connecting link between the Buzzby and Ellice families--constantly reminding each of the other's existence by the daily interchange of visits.
Fred and Tom soon came to be known as the best doctors with which that part of the country had ever been blessed.

And the secret of their success lay in this, that while they ministered to the diseased bodies of men, they also ministered to their diseased souls.

With skilful hands they sought to arrest the progress of decay; but when all their remedies failed, they did not merely cease their efforts and retire--they turned to the pages of divine truth, and directed the gaze of the dying sufferers to Jesus Christ, the Great Physician of souls.

When death had done its work, they did not quit the mourning household as if they were needed there no longer, but kneeling down with the bereaved, they prayed to Him who alone can bind up the broken heart, and besought the Holy Spirit to comfort the stricken ones in their deep affliction.
Thus Fred and his friend went hand in hand together, respected and blessed by all who knew them--each year as it passed cementing closer and closer that undying friendship which had first started into being in the gay season of boyhood, and had bloomed and ripened amid the adventures, dangers, and vicissitudes of the World of Ice.
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