The Cecil Whig., 1881-01-15
POPULAR SAYINGS ABOUT DOGS.

The oldest sayings we have about "our
! four-footed friends = are in the Bible, but
! they are not ilattering. The first men
ton of the dog is OF this class, for when
the Hebrews were in Egypt we read that
against none of them should dog move
his tongue.
An Englishman says, IF you can not
bite, never show your teeth" or, " Don't
bark if you can't bite, while the Scotch
! say, Great barkers are nae bitters.'
The English also say, What. keep dog
and bark myself?' These need no ex-
| PLANTATION and the same is true of others,
such as, ANY stick will do to beat
dog 'Give 4 dog bad name and hang
him, :" 1t is easy to find stick to beat
dog, and when a dog is drowning,
! every one offers him drink" On the
same principle OF giving to those who do
not want. we are told that every one
bastcs the fat dog, while the lean one
burns. OF course a hungry dog will
eat dirty pudding, it is a bad dog that
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tie up a dog with chitterling.' An
old dog will learn no new trick" but a
crafty man is an ''old dog at any thing.
The French language is singularly pro-
life in sayings about dogs. "A good
! dog never barks amiss. but not every dog
bites that barks.' The best of friends
must part. as Dagonert said to his dogs"
| This is well known and so is this: :. He
is like the dog of Jean de Nivelle, which
runs away when it is called" A dog
may look at 4 bishop" is like our own
- y cat may look at q king To beat
the dog when the lion is present may
be safe but is rather cowardly. Two
dogs to one bone" are bad. He who
would drown dog calls it mad" You
must throw stones at the dog which
bites" but II llatter the dog till you get
to the stone heap" and do not make
fun of the dog till You are out of the vii
lage," perhaps because "a dog and a
cock are always brave on their owrdung-
| hill. II he VINO takes dog by the
ears is bitten.' it is no wonder. "A
! quarrelsome dog always has rent cars,
! or, as the Russians say, is I prey to the
wolf. do not kill your dog for one
bad year. "A good dog hunts by ma
ture." Give a good bone to good
dog" "A good bone seldom chokes a
good dog" but there may be too many
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your dog to follow you, give him bread
but "a scalded dog does not go back to
the Kitchen Small dog. fine tail"
Bad dog, short chin ''If you sleep
with the dogs. you will rise. with the
tleas.' Note also that dogs and cats
are bad neighbors.' When the dogs
rend each other. the wolf follows his
VOCATION You can not change the ma
ture Of a beast, Dog can not become
goat, nor rabbit hare.
When they have nothing. the Flemish
! tell you that you will lind the dog in
the pot. The Dutchman may be "as
snappish as a young dog" The Italian
says, No dog is SO bad as not to wag
his tall that "a dog which barks never
bites, which is scarcely true; and Wee
to the skin of a snarling dog, unless it
be strong or tough The Spaniard says,
If you wish your dog to follow you,
| give him bread, and yet he says, when
your dog wags his tail, it is not for you,
but for the bread. He thinks, too. that
the well-bred dog always dreams of hunt
, ing.
The Turks have few good sayings,
one Of which is The dog barks, and
the caravan goes by mere noise is
nothing. Another is that The dog
which is led out to hunt against his will
takes no game The Arabs have OBJ
served that every dog barks at his own
gate, and that "a dog that runs is bet
ter than lion that lies down. They
I think it 4 foolish thing to draw the
dogs teeth, and bark yourself;" but,
having no great confidence in the ami
NAL, they say, Pat a dog on the jaws
till you can muzZle it, From the Chi
nese we learn that "a dog which raises
its tail despises its foe;' also that "he
who beats dog should think of it's mas
ter" Other rough-and- ready sayings of
theirs are that . the dog in it's kennel
howls at the tleas, but the dog which is
hunting does not feel them" and that
lit is not dogs tleas which make the
cats cry out.