The Washington times., 1894-06-03
OTHER PEOPLES DOGS.

They Have Far More DisagrccabIe Traits
Than Ones Own Dog.
The proverb Love me, love my dog" puts
heavy strain on human affections, says the
Saturday Review Each of us, of course,
feels sense of solidarity with his own hound.
He was faithful, he was kind, and he very
seldom whlned," we murmur, as we reflect on
the merits of our old dog Tray. Interesting
anecdotes illustrate mans feeling of union
with his dog.
We almost say that these two are one flesh.
Thus, in Glasgow drover was heard to OBJ
serve to n stranger. "Was it you that tram
pied on ma dougs taes? For, if it was, I'd
gle ye n clour on the heid-and there it ISL
This friend Of the dog was inexorabilis, acer.
He did not wait to learn whether as a ques-
ton OF historical fact, the stranger had
trampled on his dogs toes or not; still less did
he pause for an apology. He struck him at
once; so much ia man q kind OF body corpor-
ate with his tyke. Thus we may observe that
when two dogs begin to fight, each spirited
proprietor belabors the other dog, and the
men arc at war, owing to the quarrel between
their subject dependencies. No man resents
his own dogs behavior, however maddening;
and often to keep the friend we are obliged TO
endure the dog.
Now. all dogs are not equally agreeable to
al. The friends Of Launce, especially such
OF his friends as wore farthingales, had much
to suffer from that stony hearted cur Indeed,
we all have much to suffer from other mems
dogs. Thus, put case, that you dine out.
All through dinner YOU are aware that pup
Is bestowing his affections on you under the
table. In the drawing room YOU discover
that the lower portions OF your "faultless
evening dress" Miss Braddon) are mere dec
orative fringes. The pup has converted them
.Rto rags and tatters.
This seems an extremely humorous circum-
stance to your host. because the pup is his
pup. Perhaps he thinks lit will be t making
o { poop. But it costs money, not to men,
tion the irritating nature of the adventure.
mans calves are dear to him, but his
friends dog makes them the theme of playful
but mordant sallies. II the sufferer gives the
dog what (in the opinion Of persons who are
not owners of dogs) he richly deserves, then
the affection is ended. .'They had been
friends in youth" till the dog came in like
death and broke up their fair companIonship.
Our friends dogs are apt to stay ont till
$50 a. m, and then on cold, foggy night to
bay, yap yell. and howl under our windows.
II one shoots at them it is resented. As no
dog ever yet wakened his master, the guest
must rise, open the door, stand shivering in
the fog. and admit the abominable cur Job
himself in these circumstances would proba-
bly, have hurled whatever was hard and heavy
Mt dear little Bingo; but to act thus is simply
to provoke the blood feud. Even TO admit
that trees have branches, that there are ropes
and THAI many opjne that dogs have throats
ID resented rs a kind ofblasphemy against the
family idol.
dog is always going where he gets his
toes or tail trodden upon. The yowl he sets
up is enough to destroy the nerves of poet
or other person of high-strung organization
But no man ever pities the victim of his dog;
quite the reverse. 1t is Bingo, the downtrod-
den. whom they cocker. and pet. and con-
dole with. OF course these accidents mainly
occur TO fox terriers, whom we take to be at
once shrillest the most self-engrossed, and
mentally tho most vacuous of brute creation.
Fly from tho man or woman who cherishes
fox terrier. This creature would Justify
divorce; in fact, an addition to our laws
should Mt once be made. We should see, in
the ediiying reports, 'Smith vs.. Smith and
fox terrier"