CHARACTER OF THE DOG. 17 



ledge, nothing could have previously induced 

 him to pass that court when your dog or mine 

 was in sight." 



"It looks very like the reasoning power, I con- 

 fess," said the doctor; " but see, here comes your 

 dog back." 



The most curious part of the affair now occur- 

 red; for as Smoke came nigh to Flame, for the 

 purpose, no doubt, of comparing injuries, the 

 latter, who was licking his wounds, instantly 

 flew upon him, and, without paying the least 

 regard to their former relations, inflicted upon 

 him a tremendous mauling. At this sight the 

 physician, unwilling to lose his professional gra- 

 vity in the street, started instanter for his office ; 

 while the sugar refiner, albeit not possessed of so 

 quick a sense of the ludicrous, retreated to a 

 counting room in a huge smoky building across 

 the way. The alliance was, however, dissolved, 

 and the two discomfitted tyrants were never seen 

 together from that instant. 



In this anecdote, for the truth of which we can 

 vouch, we have strikingly displayed, first, a mu- 

 tual understanding, resulting in a regular alli- 

 ance for the purpose of aggressive warfare ; next, 

 endurance, amounting almost to abject cowardice, 

 on the part of a third dog ; then a noble resolu- 



