Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1899-04-16
CANINE LANGUAGE.
RREE STORIES THAT SHOW DOGS
CAN TALK.

A Case of Satisfying a Dogs sense of Hon.
or-New Zealand freyhoands at Their
PIay-An Insistent Committee of Dogs
and Its. Work.
We were Speaking of the power pos
sessed by some animals Of commune
eating their ideas one to another, and
my friend kindly furnished me with
two or three stories to illustrate the
point, He said: James Cumming was
fishing a stream near CoHpar, and was
much annoyed by q small terrier which
followed Tim aIon8 the path, barking,
till he TUNED and clicked the dog
over the nose With his fishing rod,
when the dog at once ran off. Ny friend
went on with his fishing, and forgot the
incid2nttillhe noticed the small dog re-
Stunning, trettfng By the side of a large
retriever, who without any growing or
preiiminaries, quietly bit Cummings
heel, and in, the same. quiet and digni-
fed manner at once retired, honor
having been satisfied.
In the district Of Rangitikef, New
Zealand, whsre I lived for some years.
hares we're very plentiful, and coursing
was sport INDUCED in by everybody.
the result being that greyhounds
swarmed in the townships; ap& while
their owners were busy, they We're in
clined to suffer from en1sli, and thus
it happened that some fifteen or twenty
hounds would often trot out of the
village, quite unattended, about
quarter Of a mile, to a paddock oppo
site my house, and there they would
mass up in one corr er close to the gate.
Presently one of The number would
dash out from tina mob towards the
middle Of the field, and when it had
got some fifty or seventy yards start,
would begin to- double" and twist ex-
actly as a hare would do when hard
pressed. The pack would at once COM
mence the chase, while the hare" dog
lodged and turned at full speed, till at
last he was "collared" and pulled
down, when the painting pack would re-
turn to the rendezvous at the gate, and
after brief GLOW" another dog would
u Celh away anu dSS il1C Ll1S IO1G VI
"hare. This sport I have seen carried
on for nearly an hourssat a stretch,
perfectly spontaneous on the part of
the dogs.
Another curious story was told me
by DR.. Frank Wallace Mckenzie OF
Wellington, D. T., whose father owned
run in Otago, which was much over
run by rabbits. In order to keep the
rabbits in check, if possible, a monde
script pack of dogs was kept at the
station to hunt rabbits for their living.
The pack was composed of half-breed
Greybounds and eollies chiefly, and
they We're in the habit of going out
every morning quite by themselves and
hunting ali day, returning in the even
ing to the station. A very small Scotch
terrier always accompanied these ex-
petitions, his small body allowing him
to take the part of a ferret, and turn
tie rabbits out of their burrows. The
dos, therefore, became necessary 10
others if they wanted really good
sport; but there were times-as this
dog grew old-when the comforts OF
the kitchen fire outweighed the joyous
eXcitemeut of digging rabbits out of
the snow, and as lie was privileged
individual, and his daily bread did not
depend entirely upon the slaughter of
the chase. he would sometimes absent
hirself from the meet" but the
other dogs knew better than to start
without him, so q deputation would
return to the kitchen to ask him to
@leeonsider his position and being
armed with wider. powers of persuasion
than most Populations, when this one
vas net with snarIs and growls. it set
upon the object Of its prayers and
dragged him out Of the place. At
once he was surrounded by the pack,
and hurried off to the hunting ground
by the pack in no very gentle manner.
Once there. the spirit of the chase"
would come oyer. him, and his stiffness
wear off. but same performance
would 1I ssss Z haze e .s ssss
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