THE COAL TO THE KINDLING WOOD 67 



about dog society and the only game I knew was 

 'lone bone.' In that game you take a bone and 

 growl at it, then knock it away, or up in the air 

 with your paw, jump after it and try to catch it 

 as it drops, shake it, bite it, and growl again. It 

 is very good exercise, but it's awfully dull to have 

 to do your own growling. 4 Snatch bone ' is much 

 more exciting. You need a good strong beef or 

 mutton bone for this game ; little bones wear out 

 too quick. We dogs go out in a place where there 

 is plenty of room. Lumberlegs takes the bone, 

 lies down, and puts his paw upon it and gives a 

 growl as a signal to begin. Then I wag my tail 

 hard. 



" Lumberlegs throws the bone up in the air ; we 

 both jump to catch it ; the one who gets it runs 

 around with it in his mouth as fast as he can go, 

 and the other one tries to snatch the bone away 

 from him. Sometimes we both get a good hold 

 with our teeth at the same time, and then we 

 wrestle and tumble and grab with our paws, and 

 the one who holds on the longest takes the bone 

 back to his side, growls, and then we begin again. 

 When time's up the dog that has the bone may 

 eat it." 



" It sounds as if it might be fun," mused Anne ; 

 " but don't you ever grow angry and bite ? " 



