Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-11
our CANINE COMPANIONS.
q Good Word for the Dog-Sense of Com
radeship.

a Good Word for the Dog-Sense of Com
raaeship.
Often has the present writer questioned his
canine companion-with no response beyond
the act-to find why it is that he, who VIII
never set out on any excursion by himself
will yet find no bliss so great rs TO run beside
q vehicle, horseman or 3 pedestrian, ira
versine hill, field and forest in perfect EIppi-
ness, so long as he goes with his friends. In
deed, large part of dogs existence consists
in trotting about the farm or the estate, sim
ply TO establish himself near his master, his
mistress, the baby, the hired man, without
definite communication, but simply with the
sense of conradeship He Is an animated
shadow of you; and whether your Immediate
aim be playing tennis, hoeing corn or read
ing Shakespeare, it is needful to his happi-
ness that he should be close by. He synpa-
thizes with his eyes, interrogates with his
nose. appeals with his paw, and. as Victor
Hugo says, Smiles with his tail
As for his intelligence, a myriad Anecdotes
raise the question seriously whether We do
not compliment ourselves too highly IL
putting our sagacity beside his Can we find
our way like himl Can We seek, investigate,
remember, like himl There are times"
said an eminent author to me, the other day,
''wheri that dog OF mine has no more sense
than man; but three days out OF four be-
knows more than | DO. He knows when
am going to take him down to tie office with
me as well as do; indeed, he often knows it
before DO, and is at the door all ready 10
go-in certain days when | had supposed
my mind fully made up to leave him at
home; the result is that he goes"
To love dog thoroughly, it is necessaryto
have reared him. For full enjoyment, YOU
must be able to trace back this graceful
creature who bounds beside you, with his eye
full of light and every siiken hair line Of
beauty, to that shambling puppy who was
first brought to your house-known to tho
boys Of the neighborhood only as zone of
GUMS pups" and possessing no gifts beyond
blunt and very wrinkled nose, body al
ways waddling helplessly in the wrong direc-
ton, and Il boundiess gift of getting his
leash entangled round your ankles. Your
attachment for him has grown il proportion
to the extent of his development.
The dog Of my own immediate household
is the dearer, suspect, for every folly he has
outgrown and every sin ne has imperfectly
reformed We should almost regret 70 have
him quite lose that guilty expression Of sub
dued longing which still creeps into his eyes
when he passes near particularly plump
hen, although it is now year or two since
he has chased one; or the experienced hui
nlility with which he comes crouching, IN
called, to have his ears pulled after barking
at the postrnnn He knows that Us he still
keeps within ear shot, as it were, Of those
sins of his youth, 50 do we; like many an
other handsome scapegraco, be Is never 50
near the heart as when IL becomes necessary
to forgive him. Nothing 50 initiates against
virtue, both among dogs and men, O. a Ger
tain becoCaingpess in particular types o.
wrong doiDg.-"T. W. Il" ia HARPER
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