FROM THE " SPECTA TOK." 1 1 3 



CANINE JEALOUSY. 



[Dec. 12, 1891.] 



I AM not versed in dog-lore, and it may be 

 that my love for the animal makes me an 

 ill judge of the importance of the following 

 story ; but a friend vouches for its truth, and 

 to my mind it has its importance, not from 

 its display of jealousy, but from the dog's 

 deliberate acceptance of the undoubtedly 

 changed condition, and the clearly meta- 

 physical character of his motive. 



The story is this. A young man had 

 owned for some years a dog who was his 

 constant companion. Recently the young 

 man married, and moved with his bride and 

 his dog into a house on the opposite side of the 

 street from his father's house, his own former 

 home. The dog was not happy, for the 

 time and attention which had formerly been 

 his was now given to the young wife. In 

 many ways he showed his unhappiness and 

 displeasure, in spite of the fact that the 

 master tried to reconcile him and the bride 

 to win him. One day when the master 

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