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ears stood gravely watching his slow, limping 

 descent. When the invalid was nearly at 

 the foot of the stairs the dog began to follow, 

 limping on three legs (he was quite sound), 

 in humorous imitation of our poor, afflicted 

 friend, and this assumed lameness was gravely 

 kept up till he arrived on the mat. It was 

 impossible to repress a smile, though our 

 politeness was at stake, and the unconscious- 

 ness of our friend added to the difficulty. 



A. R. 



SENSE OF HUMOUR IN DOGS. 



\_July 28, 1888.] 



A RECENT anecdote from one of your corres- 

 pondents about a dog and a hen brought to 

 my mind an incident, related to me by an 

 eye-witness, of a dog who had a constant 

 feud with the fowls, which were prone to 

 pilfer from the basin containing his dinner. 

 On one occasion he was lying in front of his 

 kennel, quietly watching a hen as she made 

 stealthy and tentative approaches to his 

 basin, which at length she reached and 



