The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1888-08-15
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WEDNESDAY,, AUG. Is, 49, !.
ouR CANINE coMpANIoNs.
A Good Word for the DOg-sense of Com
radeship.

A Good Word for the Dog-Sense of Com
radeship.
Often has the present writer questioned his
canine companion--with no response beyond
the act--to find why it is that he, who will
never set out on any excursion by himself,
win yet find no bliss so great as to run beside
n vehicle, a horseman or a pedestrian, ira
versing hill, field and forest in perfect happi-
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 SC establish himself near his master. his
mistress, the baby, the hired man, without
defiisite communication, but simply with the
sense of comradeship 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 sympa-
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 in
putting our sagacity beside his. Can we find
our way like himl Can we seek, investigate,
remember, like him? 'sThere are times,
said an eminent author to me, the other day,
t'when that dog of mine has no more sense
than a man; but three days out OF four he
knows more than / do. He knows when /
am going to take him down to the Office with
me as well as do; indeed, he often knows it
before do, and is at the door all ready to
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 necessary to
have reared him. For full enjoyment, you
must be able to trace back this graceful
creature who bounds beside you, with hiseye
full Of light and every silken hair a limo Of
beauty, TO that stumbling puppy who was
FIRST brought to your house-known to the
boys Of the neighborhood only as tone Of
Quin's pups" and possessing no gifts beyond
blunt and very wrinkled nose, a body al
ways waddling helplessly in the wrong direc-
ton, and boundless gift of getting his
leash entangled round your ankles. Your
attachment for him has grown in 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 he has imperfectly
reformed. We should almost regret to have
him quite lose that guilty expression of sub
dued longing which still creeps into his eyes
when he passes near a particularly plump
hen, although it is now year or two since
he has chased one; or the experienced hui
mility with which he comes crouching, UNI
called, to have his ears pulled after barking
at the postman. He knows that as he still
keeps within ear shot, as it were, of those
sins of his youth, SO do we; like many an
other handsome scapegrace, he is never sc
near the heart as when it becomes necessary
to forgive him. Nothing so initiates agains
virtue, both among dogs and men, as a Ger
tain becomingness in particular types o
wrong doing.-"T. W. H. in Harper
Bazaar.