FROM THE " SPECTATOR? 107 



SYMPATHY IN A DOG. 



30, 1892.] 



THE article, " Animals in Sickness," in the 

 Spectator of July 23rd, has reminded me of 

 the following anecdote, which was told to me 

 some years ago by a butcher residing at 

 Brodick, in the Isle of Arran. He told me 

 that he had had two collie dogs at the same 

 time, one old and the other young. The old 

 dog became useless through age, and was 

 drowned in the sea at Brodick. A few days 

 afterwards, its body was washed ashore, and 

 it was discovered by the young dog, who was 

 seen immediately to go to the butcher's shop 

 and take away a piece of meat and lay it 

 at the dead dog's mo>>th. The young dog 

 evidently thought that the meat would revive 

 his old comrade, and thereby showed re- 

 markable sympathy in aid of, to him, the 

 apparent " weak." 



DAVID HANNAY. 



