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carry about a piece of meat, lay it before him, and 

 gladly see him devour it. Several times she has 

 brought him live mice, in the vain hope that he too 

 would become a mouser. 



The dog is simple-minded and has little artifice. 

 Phi will leave his dinner to follow my youngest boy, 

 who delights to race him over the moors. When the 

 snow lay on the hills the boy had his sledge out, and 

 Phi would scamper by his side and bite his feet in 

 full career. He was glad to ride by his master's side 

 down the slopes. Even when put on the sledge by 

 himself, he submitted and shot down the hill-side 

 without flinching, though his attitude was dejected, 

 and he wore an anxious air. I fancy he enjoyed it as 

 little as a man subject to sea-sickness enjoys a sail 

 with a fresh breeze, but he never shirked. If you 

 make a companion of your dog, he will share all 

 risks with you. 



The dog attends to what you say ; the cat does 

 not, unless indeed she grows in time to understand a 

 particular word as a call to meat. The dog has the 

 idea of conversation, though articulate speech has 

 been denied him. It is well for us and for him that 

 he cannot speak, for I am certain that he would say 

 the same thing over and over again to our utter 

 weariness. Since he cannot speak, he looks at us, 

 and there is great expression in a dog's look, which 

 we should fail to appreciate if he were able to 

 accompany it by foolish speeches. 



Society has made the disposition of the dog, want 

 of society the disposition of the cat. The wild dog 

 hunts in packs, and that means combination, some 



