STUDY IN ANIMAL CHARACTER 231 
We catch but fleeting glimpses of wild animals; 
hence it is not easy to study their idiosyncrasies. For- 
tunately, there are the domestic animals, These come to 
our help. Every horse, cat, dog, cow, and fowl has its 
own little character, which is displayed in its actions. 
It is to these creatures that we must turn if we should 
study character among animals. 
Two fox-terriers allow me to share the bungalow 
with them, so that I have an excellent opportunity of 
observing their idiosyncrasies. They are what the Babu 
would call he-dogs, and rejoice in the respective names 
of Tony and Bod. So great is the diversity of charac- 
ter which they exhibit that, after watching them for 
a few weeks, one feels capable of writing a canine 
“Sandford and Merton.” 
The lineage of neither of these dogs is unimpeach- 
able. There are bars sinister on the escutcheon of 
each. Sod is a stolid, squarely built animal, exhibiting 
distinct traces of the bull-terrier. He reminds one of 
a Dutch burgher; he is eminently respectable, although 
not of prepossessing appearance. TJony is a lanky dog, 
a canine “daddy-long-legs.” He has been allowed to 
run to seed and has developed into a fragile weed of a 
hound. He has a pretty face, but his beauty is not 
patrician ; it is, in fact, distinctly plebeian, being that 
of a glorified pariah dog. His worst enemies could not 
call him phlegmatic, but they might hint that he is 
afflicted with St, Vitus’s dance. 
Bob’s character is in keeping with his appearance. 
There is in it much of sterling merit. He is an austere 
dog, despising the vain pomp and glory of this world. 
