OKDER V. THE CARNIVOKA. O 



Caxixe AxTACnjiEXT. — A horse in Xew York got its leg broken, and 

 the owner was eonipelled to have tlic animal shot. AMien a person at- 

 tempted to remove tlie animal, a dog which had slept in the stable with the 

 horse three years rel'iised to be se[iarated from the carcass, but clung to the 

 mane with its teeth, and mounted the vehicle when it moved off, and sat 

 beside the dead horse, acting as chief and only mourner. After a lapse 

 of three hours the dog returned to the stable, seeming quite lonely iu the 

 absence of its lost companion. 



]\Ir. Kidd, in his essays on instinct and reason, furnishes the following 

 interesting incident: "Of the dog we can all be eloquent; history has ad- 

 duced some remarkable exhibitions of their sagacity, and I could relate 

 ' true anecdotes ' of some of my canine favorites that would hardly be 

 credited. Still, with all my success in teaching dogs to do marvellous 

 things, I never could teach them that when they jumped up with dirty feet, 

 there was an injury done to my clothes. Wiien they obeyed the command 

 of 'Down, sir ! ' sometimes enforced by a gentle coup du mnia, they never 

 could reason about the 'why and because.' Nor have I ever yet met with 

 any dog, or e\er heard of any dog, that could be argued with on these moral 

 proprieties and observances. Talking of the memory of dogs, one of mine, 

 Dash by name, was once stolen from me. After being absent thirteen 

 months, he one day entered my office in town, with a long string tied round 

 his neck. He had broken away from the fellow who held him prisoner. I 

 discovered the thief, had him apprehended, and took him before a magis- 

 trate. He swore the dog was his, and called witnesses to bear him out. 

 'Mr. Kidd,' said ilr. Twyford, — I sec him now, — addressing me, 'can 

 you give us any satisfactory proof of this dog being your property ? ' 

 Placing my mouth to the dog's ear, — first giving him a knowing look, — 

 and whispering a little masonic communication, known to us two only. Dash 

 immediately reared u[) on his hind legs, and went through a series of gym- 

 nastic manceuvres with a stick, guided meanwhile by my eye, which set the 

 whole court in a roar. ^ly evidence needed no further corroboration ; the 

 thief stood committed. Dash was liberated, and amidst the cheers of the 

 nudtitude we bounded merrily homewards. The reunion among my house- 

 hold gods may be imagined. It would be farcical to relate it; nor must I 

 dwell upon certain other rare excellences of this same dog, with whom, and 

 his equally sagacious better half, Fanny, I passed many years of happy and 

 delightful intimacy." 



The Music-loving Dog. — As dogs generally have no taste for har- 

 mony, and musical sounds usually offend them, the following instance, 

 where the love of music in a dog amounted to a passion, must be deemed 

 most extraordinary : — 



