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ercise of parental authority the son never resented. Mr. 

 Oldham had a dog which had grown old and decrepit and 

 led a very inactive life. He bought a Scotch terrier 

 which became quite a favorite. All of Charlie's old 

 vigor revived upon the advent of this rival. He ex- 

 hibited agonies of jealousy and spent the rest of his 

 life in following, watching and imitating him. He had 

 given up walking but now went out whenever Jack did. 

 He had been very particular about his food ; would eat 

 nothing but meat, but now ate the same food as Jack, 

 If Jack was caressed he would stand it as long as he 

 could and then set up a piteous whining. He would 

 plunge into cold water after sticks and do many other 

 disagreeable things, not to secure any material benefits, 

 but simply that he might receive the same attentions as 

 another dog. 



Dogs are deceitful and do not like to be laughed at. A 

 terrier was very fond of catching flies on the window 

 pane. Sometimes he would miss them and then his 

 owner would laugh at him, in fact took pains to laugh 

 immoderately at each failure to see what the dog would 

 do. The dog was very much annoyed at this and as he 

 could not give up the habit, when he failed, he pretended 

 to succeed in catching the fly — would go through all the 

 motions, rubbing with his neck upon the ground and 

 stamping with his feet as if killing his victim ; he would 

 then look up at his master with an air of triumph. The 

 fly was not caught for it was still upon the window pane. 

 He would then let the dog know that he saw through 

 his trick by pointing to the fly, upon which the dog 

 would slink off and hide under the furniture. 



A clergyman writing to Mr. Romanes, the author of the 

 work on "Animal Intelligence," and to whose work lam 

 indebted for many of the incidents I have narrated, says 

 of a favorite retriever, that he was one day lying in the 

 kitchen while a turkey was being roasted before the fire. 



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