ANIMAL ETIQUETTE 



IT has been noted that the etiquette of high life is 

 by no means the only form of its observance among 

 men. There is such a thing as professional etiquette 

 the etiquette of sport, and even the etiquette of 

 labour. This sometimes takes the form, not only 

 of prescribing who shall do what, but how things 

 shall be done. It would be very bad form, for 

 instance, for a bricklayer to use more than one 

 hand to work with, or for his * labourer ' to carry 

 up bricks or mortar in anything but the traditional 

 hod, though it might be far quicker and easier to 

 haul them up in a lift. Animals seem to share this 

 feeling for the etiquette of labour ; only, as they 

 do not belong to a Trade -Union, it often works 

 entirely to their disadvantage. Take, for instance, 

 the following case of the otter at the Zoo, which, 

 on the Saturday on which the great frost of 1895 

 began, had just been provided with material for a 

 new bed. It was freezing hard ; half its pond was 



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