Animal Anecdotes. 
Tux following story of two dogs—a big one and 
a little one—is told by an eye- 
witness of the incident : —‘‘ The 
big dog dearly loved a fight, and 
for that reason he was always kept ‘behind the 
scenes.’ The little mite was of the ‘discretion- 
the-better-part-of-valor’ breed, and from puppy- 
hood had been a deyout believer in the canine 
maxim, ‘The dog that barks and runs away 
lives to bark 
another day.’ 
The two animals 
were very good 
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friends, even 
though their 
tastes varied 
somewhat. In 
one respect the 
little dog was 
very, very human. 
Although he 
strongly objected 
to fighting on 
his own account, 
he thoroughly 
enjoyed looking 
on while others 
provided the fun, 
as will be shown 
by the following 
incident—an in- . 
cident which I 
should not have 
believed to be 
possible had I 
not myself wit- 
nessed it. A man 
with a collie 
entered the hotel 
and called for 
refreshments. 
The proprietor’s 
dog had somehow 
or other got in 
front of the bar, 
and as the collie 
was in a fighting mood, and the proprietor’s 
dog didn’t mind, a fight began. The proprietor, 
as usual in such circumstances, promptly stopped 
the fray, and tied his dog with a piece of 
stout string to a hook behind the bar. The 
diminutive dog, which had- noted all the pro- 
ceedings, was evidently disgusted with the 
abrupt and premature termination of what had 
promised to be a right royal canine tussle, 
“He worried and gnawed.” 
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and to the amusement of the proprietor and 
a crowd of men on the other side of the 
bar, the tiny mite began to ‘worry’ the string 
which secured his fighting comrade. He worried 
and gnawed, gnawed and worried, until at length 
he actually severed the string in two. The 
sullen prisoner, who had all along taken but 
passive interest in his chum’s apparently futile 
endeayours, suddenly realised that he was free, 
and, with a yell. 
and a bound, the 
released gladiator 
cleared the coun- 
ter and went in 
quest of his 
enemy. Mere 
words cannot 
adequately pour- 
tray the look of 
bitter disappoint- 
ment and intense 
disgust on the 
little dog’s face 
when the second 
edition of the 
fight, like the first, 
was promptly 
nipped in the 
bud by the alert 
and peace-loving 
proprietor.” 
ve 
A PROUD mother 
of three kittens 
adopted the 
following in- 
genious method 
of obtainmg a 
much-needed 
nap, and yet 
being able to go 
to sleep feeling 
confident con- 
cerning the 
safety of her little ones. One by one she caught 
A each kitten and took it in her 
Ingenious. onth to the top of a large stack 
of wood. When all three were on the top 
of the stack, the mother calmly laid down at the 
bottom and went to sleep. The kittens walked 
all round the top of the pile, but dared not 
jump down, which, of course, the old cat was 
well aware ot. 
