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able to toddle about, they generally keep near their 

 mamma, who, if the weather is fine, will bring them 

 on to a lawn or grass-edging near a shrubbery, and 

 often as dogs are sociable by nature and sporting 

 dogs have privileges in sight of the windows. 

 Greyhounds, being usually kept away from houses on 

 account of their habit of howling at night, more 

 often take the litter to the farmyard, or to the back 

 court and curtilage. 



Small puppies early develop the dog instinct for 

 burying food. Any old bones they can pick up they 

 bury, and if they can find a hole ready made, will 

 descend into it, scratch out their own ridiculous little 

 cache, and half-cover the bone in it, using their noses 

 as shovels. Then they perhaps discover that they 

 cannot climb out of the principal crater, and howl 

 as dismally as if some one had beaten them. Like 

 most small children, they never try to exhibit the 

 slightest fortitude, but howl and shriek at any 

 mishap if they are frightened, if the cat scratches 

 them, if a fly stings their nose, or if they think 

 another dog is going to hurt them. 



When they can trot, and even gallop a little, they 

 begin collecting. This, again, is extremely suggestive 

 to naturalists, who see in it the survival of the instinct 

 which made the original young wolf or primitive wild 

 ancestor begin to pick up a living, and carry what 

 it caught, or what its mother gave it, to its den. 

 Puppies retain any amount of these interesting sur- 

 vivals, but keep the acquisitive and not the selective 

 instinct. For some weeks they regard collecting as 



