Evening star., 1898-12-31

the dogs are held in leash by their guides,
but most of them run free, and the dog
bee that takes place before the dog doctor
makes his appearance to open up his office
is worth watching. Few of the dogs look
sick, and those that do look sick appear to
forget their misery in the joy of meeting
up with SO large and varied an assortment
of their kind. AS the dogs get together in
rolling, tumblng, skylarking punches, their
owners, standing patiently before the dog
doctors office door, watch them solicitous-
ly. AT the first premonitory bark or growl
from the midst of the careering bunch of
dogs, indicating that a scrap among some
of them is about due, all of the dogs own
ers begin to look worried The women
waste their breath calling for their dogs
and in verbally assailing all of the other
dogs in the bunch except their own.
Come here this instant, you Ffdo,"
shrills one of the feminine dog owners
Don't you know that those horrid big ours
will eat you up?'
Then F'ido turns from his gang of friends,
surveys his mistress with a look of mex
pressibe contempt, and proceeds to con-
tnue fooling with one of the big dogs un-
til, usually, he leaves scrap of his peIt
between the big dogs teeth Then he
comes whimpering to his mistress.
Then There is Trouble.
The men whose dogs, big or little are
mixed up in a pack of CANNES among which
trouble seems to be brewing, rarely make
any effort to call off their dogs. The man
never lived yet anyhow who didn't be-
heve that his own particular dog, fox ter
rter or Siberian bloodhound, couldn't put it
all over any bakers dozen of the scrap
piest dogs in training when it came to a
hsht. Moreover, the man with any dog
experience knows the fHtility Of trying to
call off his dog when there is a consider
able aggregation of CANNES near by, en-
gagged in pulling and hauling each other
around. He knows that dogs don't profit by
experience, any more than do human be-
ings, and that the most ioutclassed dog on
earth is liable to put himself in the way
of being licked whenever he gets half a
chance. So the men standing in front of
the dog doctors office let the feminine dog
owners do all the calling when trouble
seems to impend among the pack Occa-
sionally a melee of considerable proper
tions takes place among the dogs waiting
Tor the appearance. of the doctor. Young
playful, inexperienced dogs usually bring
about these scraps. They manifest de-
termfned disposition to make the acquaint-
ance, say. of some staid middle-aged bull
terrier who isn't feeling we'll and whose
exterior, even when he is feeling his best
seems to say, Lemme alone; amt got no
time to fool with you kids; don't bother
me" The young, playful dogs persist in
n'onkeying with a dog of this kind once in
a while, until there Is a sudden snap and
growl, and the bull terrier proceeds to eat
up the fool dogs In detail.
Inside the Office
The dogs and their owners are tightly
packed around the door of the dog doctors 9
office when the latter finally arrives and
opens UP for business, and they all pass
In, each dog, at the doctors suggestion.
being held on to in order that no hostili-
ties shall ensue. within the comparatively
limited space of the office. There is a size
able reception room and beyond the con-
sultation office. The dogs and their own
ers hold their interviews with the dog
doctor in their turns
The dog doctor is a tall young man, with
a magnetic eye. big. strong hands, that
seem to have been fashioned for the pur-
pose of prying the jaws of dogs open, and
apparent perfect confidence in his dag
noses. He can tell what ails a dog, usually
by just looking him over and his dog.
knowledge dates from away back. His cru
dition on dog breeds is so profound that he
can tell you the name of every collateral
strain of breeding that has entered into
the makeup of any mongrel dog of hobo
lnclinations that you point out to him on
the period of his Office hours.
No. l in his line of canine patients the
other morning was accompanied by
tailor-made girl, who carried a silver bon
bon box, filled with chocolate creams, in
her hand. Her dog was a dopey-looking
pug, with tail that had two or three
tight curls in it. The tailor-made young
woman had been feeding the pug chocolate