may be obligatory to swish him, but let the punishment be given 

 with gentle hand, even as the birch is administered by the sorrowing 

 " Head " to the recalcitrant scholar. Remember though that youth 

 has much to learn, experience is incomplete. Therefore, be tolerant, 

 but let not your toleration be mixed with indulgence, unless you 

 wish to rear up a tyrant, who will dominate the household and 

 render your life a misery. Beyond certain well defined limitations 

 the dog should not be allowed to step. As a sympathetic person 

 you must treat him with kindliness, but never for a moment allow 

 him to forget that respect which is due to you as a superior being. 

 What is your opinion of the Prime Minister who fails to lead, of 

 the General who consults a private ? Each is unfitted for the 

 position to which he has been called. So, too, is the man who 

 abdicates his headship in favour of Fido. He has no right to own 

 a dog. Puppies, like children, are all the better when subjected 

 to reasonable discipline, and in using the word discipline I do not 

 mean an excessive application of the rod or incessant nagging. 



What is the fate of the merry mite so cleverly portrayed by 

 Miss Earl ? Youth passes, middle age comes, let him play and eat 

 and sleep while the zest is on him, so that on the advent of 

 maturity with all its troubles he may seek consolation in the 

 memories of a happy puppyhood. 



