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" red hand " — in flagrante delicto. He cannot then 

 mistake why you flog him. Intelligent as this 

 animal is, still it cannot be expected that he should 

 know why he is flogged, if any time has elapsed 

 since the fault was committed. 



Dogs have, also, a great deal of jealousy in their 

 dispositions ; and even this may be made to assist 

 in their education, as it makes them strive to outdo 

 each other. Every clever dog is especially unwilling 

 that any of his companions should possess a greater 

 share of his master's favour than himself. One of 

 my dogs could not be induced to hunt in company 

 with another, of whose advances in my good graces 

 he was peculiarly jealous. There was no other 

 groinid of quarrel between them. When Rover 

 saw that a certain young dog was to accompany 

 me, he invariably refused to go out ; and, although 

 at other times one of the most eager dogs for sport 

 that I ever possessed, nothing would induce him to 

 go out with his young rival. He also showed his 

 jealousy by flying at him and biting him on every 

 possible occasion where he could do so unobserved. 

 At last, however, when the young dog had grown 

 older, and discovered that his own strength was 

 superior to that of his tyrant, he flew upon poor 

 Rover, and amply revenged all the ill treatment 

 which he had received at his hands. From that 



