Year: 1873

spring of allegiance to his master, and
ever after reconciling him with true
magnanimity to take evil from the hand
from which he has accepted good. Regret
and orief he feels so deeply that they of
ten break his heart. Fear Is passion
which dogs exhibit with singular varia-
ton, some breeds and individuals being
very timorous and others perfect models
of courage the latter characteristic, and
fortitude seeming to be more characters
tically canine. A greyhound has been
known, after breaking his thigh, to run
on till the course was concluded; and In
the excellent new volume "On the Dog,


by Idstone, is frightful story of fox
hound whom its ferocious master fogged
so savagely for "babbling," as to cut out
its eye with his whip. The animal con-
tinued to hunt with the pack till the end
of the chase, whereupon the human
brute, a certain Colonel Thornton, took
out his scissors and severed the skin, by
which the dogs eye had hung pendent
during the entire run" AS to Hope no
one can observe the dog watching for his
masters step, as in Landseer's S picture of
Expectation" without admitting that
he knows the sentiment as well as we.
Pride in a successful chase may be wit
messed in every dog, and even felt in the
ouickened heart-beats of a greyhound
when caressed and praised. That dogs
have personal vdnity appears from the
fact that they are so manifestly detected
and demoralized when dirty and ragged
by long exposure, and recover their self
respect immediately on being washed
and combed. Chiv0lry and naagnaninaitV
may nearly always be calculated upon in
dogs, and wife-beating is an offence to
which the four-footed beast never de-
scends. The stories are endless of big
dogs generously overlooking the insults
of small ours, or taking them into water
and giving them good ducking as a
punishment for their impertinence, and
then helping them mercifully back to
land. Sense of property bifurcating into
both couetouSneSS and avaTice, is common
to all dogs. The kennel, rug, collar,
water basin, or bone once devoted to his
use, no dog can see transferred to anoth-
er without Indignation. Frequently he
"covets his neighbor's house" and at
tempts to ensconee himself in it surrep-
titiously; and almost universally he COW
cts his neighbor's bone, and purloins it.
if he dare. Even from avdric3 he cannot
be wholly exonerated, observing his pro-
pensity to bury his treasures. Shame, af-
ter transgressing any of the arbitrary
rules imposed on him, dog displays
with ludicrous simplicity; but of the
| deeper sensesof violated modesty which
in human beings accompanies the COM
mission of sin, the dog evidently knows
| nothing whatever. Ha1nor, so far as it
can proceed without language, the dog
catches readily from humorous master,
and also the enjoyment of such games as
he can understand. AS a baby crows
with glee at "Bo-peep," so dog barks
with delightat ''go fetch Make-believe
runs and false starts, romps and ticklings,
rolling him up in a rug and letting him
find his way out, throwing ball for him
to catch on the grass, or q stick to fish
out of a lake, all supply him with pleas
ures perfectly analogous in their nature
to that which boys and men find in Blind
Mans Buff and Prisoners Base, lordly
cricket, and lady-like croquet Lastly


faith in q beloved superior is perhaps the
most beautiful and affecting of all the at
tributes of dog. Whose heart does not
grow sick at the reflection that this sa-
cred trust of the dog in man should be
so often betrayed, = that dull Doors
should lure him by mock words Of en-
couragement to the death Ito him so
slow and agonizing) of the halter; and
that far worse wretches, in the guise of
cultivated gentlemen, should first fondle
and then dissect him alive, while even in
death he strives to show his confidence


and to lick their hands? Few of us, it is
10 Oe nOpeo, WOu1u purchase our own I'M
munity from disease at the cost of scores
of such cruel experiments, and the assur-
ance of the vivisectors who perform
them, that they do so wholly for our
sRkes, and not from mere scientific Curl
osity; would be laughable, could we find
it in our hearts to laugh at such mat
ter, 1t is surely time for the world to
recognize that Science may be the Moloch
of one age as Superstition was of anoth-
er; and that even the noble love of
knowledge may prompt offences, heinous
and hateful as ever sprung from the lust
of power or of gold.