Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-10-21
STAMBeUL STREET DOGS.


Liberty Loving BruteS-A Cumming
Race of VagabOnd Curs-EEuntibg
QuHiI.
A correspondent Of the Scotsman
writes as follows;
No abundance of food, no kind
treatment, will induce them to re-
main within doors, and the brutes
greatly prefer the scarcity of food,
the bitter cold of the winter, the
suffocating heat of the summer, to
the loss of their liberty. They also
rebel against all teaching or train
ing, and neither blows nor caresses
will get anything out of them in
that way. However, l know Of
several self-taught dogs doing very
clever things. TO begin with, /
believe that the dogs atthe railway,
unlike the Turks, have become in
some mysterious way acquainted
with the company's time tables, for
these brutes, who pass the whole
day in summer under the carriages
for the sake of shade, and under
the engines in winter for the sake
of the heat, seem to know exactly
the hour of the departure Of the
trains, for shortly before the fixed
hour Won may see them emerging
from under the carriages, and if
there be any more lazily disposed
than the rest the station-master'S
signal for the departure, which is
given by the German word "fertig'
1ready), sends them off scampering
in all directions. Another curious
specimen of self-taught street-dog
is the begging dog of Galata Bridge,
well known to the English Colony
Of Kadikeni. This dog is always
to be found on the bridge at the
landing stepe of the Kadikent
steamer. AS soon as he spies Q
foreigner, especially an Englishman
for whom it seems to have a great
regard, it will kneel down on its
fore paws and gently laying its
head on your boots, give you frs
an imploring look and then turn
and look fxedly at some street ven
dor of bread or" "Smith's" biscuits
of whom numbers are always
iloitering near the landing step.
of the steamers. 1t will repea
this till you at last understand
that he wants you to invest ten ol
twenty caras in bread or "Smit's'
for his own benefit, which you gen
orally end by doing. The curiou
part of the thing is, that | neyel
saw the cur perform this trick for
Turk, whom it thinks no doub
more dull of understanding than
Europeans. Lastly, knew a few
wears ago of an amateur sporting
Street dog at the village of St. Ste
fano. which is the great "rendez
youso Of aportsmen during th'
quail season. st, Stefauo seems t
be the first hating PLACE OF tn
, quails on their journey SOUTHWARK
from the Crimea. Thousands Q
5 these birds will fall in a singl
night in the plains around the VII
: : lage, and two or three hundre
Z gportsmen are at times collected t
q await their arrival, which great
d depends on the strength and direC
ton of the wind, etc. So,
= course, numerous and varied al
J. the predictions and the example
: mentioned by the old sportsme
over night in support Of their pre-
phesies of the next days sport; bt
is the dog / speak Of seemed to kno
70 % more about the quails than IL
keenest sportsman. How he 6,
- his information | cannot say, 6l
% the fact is, that shortly after Il
supposed hour of the arrival OF Il
4. quails, which is said to take pla.
about two in the morning, he wou
= begin running and barking throug
the village if they were numerou
= This would set all the other do
! barking too, and wake us up. Y
other nights he would remain pC
fectly quiet. At daybreak the dt
would be sure to be found at t
entrance Of the village, reviewin
seemingly with critical air, t
y outgoing sportsmen. AS soon as
ir- would see one without a dog who