172 THE PLAY OF ANIMALS. 



favourite in order to prevent trouble, but even this was 

 only a temporary remedy, for the dog turned his affec- 

 tion toward another sheep and acted as before." The 

 owner of a truck farm, says the Eevue d' Anthropologic, 

 noticed that a basket which he had filled with carrots 

 was unaccountably empty. The gardener, when ques- 

 tioned, knew nothing about it, and proposed hiding 

 behind a lattice to watch for the thief. They did so, 

 after refilling the basket. Soon a sound put them on 

 their guard, and they saw the house dog take a carrot 

 in his mouth and slink off toward the stable. Dogs 

 do not eat raw carrots, so our watchers followed the 

 rogue and discovered that he was taking the carrots 

 to a horse in whose stall he was in the habit of sleeping. 

 Wagging his tail, he presented his prize, and the horse 

 naturally needed little urging to accept it. The angry 

 gardener reached for a stick with which to punish the 

 too zealous friend, but his master restrained him, and 

 the scene was repeated until the supply of carrots was 

 exhausted. This horse was evidently the dog's chosen 

 favourite, for he scarcely noticed the other one that 

 lived in the same stall, not to speak of giving him car- 

 rots. Fraulein Fanny Bezold, of Heidingsfeld, had a 

 shaggy terrier named " Schnauz " that one day brought 

 home a rabbit that he had caught at a farm about half 

 a mile distant, and devoted himself to it. He played 

 with his pet and defended it from the attacks of other 

 animals and watched it anxiously when the children 

 of the neighbourhood came in to see it. Herr Otmar 

 Wild, in Zittau, writes to Biichner about the friendship 

 between his setter one year old and a pullet. They 

 sleep side by side, or the hen on the dog's back. He ex- 

 presses his tenderness by licking his little friend, and she 

 shows her appreciation of it by picking about in his hair. 



