The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1888-10-20
OUR CANINE COMPANIONS.
A Good Word for the Dog-scnsc of Com.
ratlcshiD.


Often has the present writer questioned his
canine companion-wi no response beyond
the act-to find why it is that he, who will
never set out on any excursion by himself,
VIII yet find no bliss so great us to run beside
a vehicle, Il horseman or II pedestrian. ira.
versinS hill, field and forest in perfect harpi-
ness, so long aS lie goes with his friends III
decd. large part of n dog existence consists
i'll 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, hut simply with the
sense of comradcship He is an animated
shadow of you, and whether Your immediate
aim he playing tennis, hoens corn or read.
mg Shakespeare, it is nccdful To his happi-
ness that he should he close 10y. He synl,,a-
thizeS with his eyes. intcrrogatcs with his
nose, appeals with his paw and, as Victor
Hugo ays, smiles with his tail
AS for his intelligence. IL mvrad anecdotes
rails" tho question seriously whether we do
not compliment ourselves too highly in
putting our s,gacity beside his. Can we iiud
onr way like him. Can we seek, investigate.
remember like him! "Thero are times
said all eminent author to me, tho other dav.
when that dog of mine has no moro sense
than man; but three days out of fonr Ii.
knows more than | do He knows when |
am going to take him down to the Office with
me as we'll as do; indeed, ho often knows it
before do, and is at tho door all ready tn
go--in certain days wien had surpassed
my mind fully made up to leave him at
home: the result is that he goes
To love a dog thoroughly, i, is neccssarvto
have reared him. For full cninvmcut You
must he able to trace back this graceful
creature who bounds beside Won, with hi,uv..
full of light and every silrn hair II line Of
beauty, To that shamblins, puppy who was
first brought to your houSc--knoNn to til.
boys oil the ncighborhood only as conc of
Quin's pups" and possessing no gifts beyond
Il blunt and very wriuk!el nose. II body al
ways waddlins hclplessly in the wrong dirrc.
ton, ami IL houndleSs gift vi getting his
leash entanslcd round Your ankles Your
attachment for him has grown in proportion
to the extent of his Development
Tho dog of my own immediate household
is the dearcr, suspect for every folly he has
out grown and every sin ic has impcricctlv
reformed. We should almost regret to have
hinl quite lose that guilty expression of sub
ducd longing which still crcel,s into his ewes
when ho passes near Il particularly plump
hen, although ii is now n year or two since
lie has chased one; ny the experienced hu
miiity with which he come, crouching, u,l-
called, I" have his ears pulled after barking
nj the pnstman. He knows that rs he still
Keeps within ear shot, as it We're, of those
sins OF his youth, SD do we; like many an
other handsome scapcgrace, he is never so
near the heart as when it brcomcs necessary
to forgive him. Nothing so initiates against
virtue both among dogs and men, ns I, Ger
tain bccominsncss in particular types of
wrong doing.-"T. w. ILL.," in IIurper's
Roy,,.