The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-05-24
LONDON ANIMALS SHOW
 GREAT DEAL INTELLIGENCE

gone to the old smithy to be shod for dozen years, and may be seen walking in and waiting their turn like customers at a hairdresser's waiting for a shampoo. One of the eleverest spaniels which any one could desire to meet was thorough Cockney dog, parlor trained in a subur- ban villa. He was a very unamiable dog, with hardly any friends, but he had great accomplishments. One was that of diving and fetching things out from un- der the water. He first learned to draw objects from the bottom of a pail, and later would dive and fetch stones thrown into the river where it was reasonably shallow. He was a capital hand at ind ing hidden objects of any kind and abso- lutely obedient to his owner, but his field of activity was limited. When quite years old he was taken into the country and out partridge shooting. He soon be- came very useful retriever being quite under control, and after he once got over the thoroughly Cockney suspicion that some one was making game of him. and
 that he would be laughed at he became quite keen.
 The extraordinary obedience of the London horses is well known. When talk en from the omnibuses to drag the guns in South Africa they faced the shells and explosions as patiently and courageously as if it all were in the usual days work. The object of the London driver being to drill his horse it's virtues are mainly those of passive obedience. But they also gain self-control which is entirely for eign to the very nervous nature Of horses. They learn not to fear any degree of noise and crowding and to avoid treading on the persons who may fall before their feet in the streets. The horses of the Life Guards, like the Guards themselves, are thorough Lon doners, and so much at home in crowd and so gentle, that when the Household Cavalry have to keep the streets" the horses never cause an accident London contractors horses are taught when drawing trucks of earth to a tipping place" to leave the line sideways, while at the same moment the truck is detach- ed and run on by it's own momentum till it hits a tipping block and capsizes its contents over the edge of the heap. This is very quick and difficult work for nervous creature like horse, and is done very promptly and eleverly.
 It is said that if the freedom of London is conferred on a distinguished person the freeman gains, among other privileges, the right to keep pigs in the parish of St. James Piccadilly; but this may be ob- solete The demeanor of a London pig
 would probably be more independent than that of London goat, one of which class for many years bore himself in
 Piceadilly with an air which was strictly in keeping with that of other distinguish ed frequenters of that aristocratic thor
 oughfare.
 The London manners and country man. 1 hers of the birds are very noticeable. ] The wild wood pigeons will occur to every one as exhibiting a curious con
 trast. But it will take many generations for the wood pigeons to learn the habit
 ual mixture of tamencss in regard to men and care in respect of traffic which the
 tame birds show. There is a small cote rie of tame pigeons which live in St.
 Jamess street and derive most of their living from stray oats dropped from the eabstand at the top of the street. These
 pigeons will feed in the middle of the