The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-04-09
DOGS HAVE a LANGUAGE.


lated ny N Observer
A correspondent writes In reference
- some recent article on dogs. II b
proof TO me that the animal kingdom
has q language Of its own, or some
means Of articulation among theln-
selves net understood by-man. To-
more fully illustrate my candid belief.
I will relate an instance Of animal
kagacity which came to my personal OBJ
servation few years ago.
At the Box Hotel in Crooxston. Mimi,
some six years ago, my attention was
more than once called to two dogs that
were allowed to loiter about the hotel
Office These dogs were the greatest Of
friends; in fact, SO s'chummy" as to call
forth admiration from the various hotel
guests
One afternoon one of the dogs which
had been basking in the sun on the floor
Of the Office suddenly gave bound and
started for the door. l Immediately
stepped to the door and opened it and
the dog passed ont, going in the direc-
ton of the Manitoba Depot where
observed some ten or twenty other
dogs holding q pow-wow. Then l
closed the door and resumed my scat.
Immediately / heard a terrible COM
motion in the direction. in~which~ the
dog had gone. Stepping In the door,
observed that full fedged dog
fight had begun. Arriving at the scene
Of the battle / found that my dog friend
of few minutes previous was the nm
der brute in big fracas. He was howl
ing with pain, while big Newfound-
land dog stood over him making the
fur fly. A blow on the CANNES Uranium
from ball club in the hands of small
urchin who stood hard by soon put q
I, stop to the Newfoundland's ~ferocity.
The under brute started for home pell
nell, and when arrived at the hotel I
found the poor brute at the office door
bleeding and bruised and awaiting in
gress. opened the door and passed.
into the Office, the dog following me.
Lying on the floor in close proximity
to the Office stove reposed the sleeping
carcass of my little bested friends COM
panion. He was large brute of the
mongrel species-a cross between a
! bull dog and mastiff. F he poor, con-
quered brute, upon entering the office,
proceeded in the direction in which his
dog friend lay stretched upon the floor,
and going mp to him commenced TO
smell him from head to foot. Presently
the sleeping dog rose to sitting posi-
/ ton, and gazing at his conquered friend
rsome two or three minutes seem to
| take in the situation at once-that his
| dogship had but lately received terri
bic whipping. After a little more
smelling on the part of the conquered
brute, both dogs started toward the
door. | stepped to the door, opened it
and the dogs passed out. Both dogs
started in the direction of the depot
platform some 400 or 500 feet south of
the hotel, where they espied several
dogs, among their number being tho
big Newfoundland, the object of their
/ vengeance. Going up to the big New
{foundland deg, my little conquered
friend turned up his tail and commenced
to growl, the big Newfoundland doing
! likewise, each dog going round and
round In circuitous route while thus
parleying, the big hotel dog in the
meantime standing hard by watching
proceedings. Presently the hotel dog
gave spring and landed good hold on
the jaw of his big opponent. Both dogs
reared in the air, the Newfoundland
coming down the under dog, and the
chewing he received in that fracas l
suppose he never forgot, my little con-
quered friend nipping. the big rascal
from behind at every chance presenting
itself. To be candid about it, the hair
Newfoundland actually filed the air,
and worse whipped dog never skunk
from the field of battle.
/ After the fight was over both hotel
dogs returned home, and from their
1 actions after their arrival there, should
judge they never allowed the matter to
worry them to any great extent Kan
sas City Star.