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submit themselves quietly and gratefully to man's ministra- 

 tions when they feel themselves ill. An old, feeble, asthmatic, 

 withal irritable, pugnacious or fierce, terrier, will allow its 

 mistress to bathe it and wrap it in blankets, and even to give 

 it stimulants or drugs, without a growl, or even with faint 

 and ungainly attempts by its looks or tail-wags at the exhi- 

 bition of approval or gratitude. 



In some cases man has to create in himself a fictitious 

 example for his dog to follow; he has to mimic injury to 

 himself, and the consecutive steps of its successful treatment, 

 in order to induce a cautious or stupid dog to submit itself 

 for real injury to similar surgical treatment. This was the 

 case with Chabet's famous Eskimo dog, Tire-king,' that 

 broke its leg after having been sold for 2001. Its master 

 took it to a veterinary surgeon, himself pretended to have 

 a broken leg, got it dressed, and by-and-by walked about on 

 it as if it had quite recovered its strength. The dog then 

 voluntarily submitted itself to a similar series of operations, 

 ' occasionally licking the hand of the operator, but betraying 

 no sign of impatience or pain.' It did so day after day till 

 a satisfactory cure was effected, but never seemed to have 

 detected its master's kindly and judicious ruse (Wood). 



The endurance of pain without visible sign has been re- 

 marked upon as one of the characteristics of the shepherd's 

 dog. And yet that and other dogs, as well as many other 

 animals, suffer and fear pain as much as man does. To bear 

 bodily pain without flinching, as the typical Eed Indian, of fic- 

 tion if not of fact, bears it, is indeed one of the Spartan virtues 

 taught by animal parents to their young (Low). This en- 

 durance involves sometimes fatal mutilation of the most 

 torturing kind. 



During the Crimean War, Colonel Stuart Wortley's cat 

 visited the doctor's tent to get a bayonet wound in the foot 

 examined and bandaged. She was found by the colonel 

 wounded after the capture of the Malakoff, and was by him 

 taken daily for a time to the regimental surgeon to have the 

 wound dressed. But when he became himself ill, and unable 

 to take her as usual, she went herself, and ' sat quietly down 

 for her foot to be examined, and have its usual bandaging.' 



