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BOYS’ department. 
Sons’ JUtpartm-ent. 
ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS.—No. 2. 
A Methodical Dog. —A fine hunting-dog that 
had been spoiled for sport by being too much petted 
and over-fed, belonged, a few years ago, to one of 
my country friends, to whose beautiful farm, and 
well-ordered, well-educated, agreeable family, I 
was long in the habit of making an annual visit. 
This dog was allowed to follow the family to 
Friends’ Meeting, and being very gentle, was also 
indulged with a place under his master’s seat. At 
last, it was discovered that he went regularly, 
whether the family did or not, and always took his 
place where his master ought to have been, lay 
perfectly quiet until meeting broke up, and then 
soberly wended his way homeward, looking quite 
satisfied when he arrived, as if he had performed 
his part, whether the other members of the family 
had done their duty or not. 
A Good Story for the Boys.— The tqles of 
travellers do not always receive so much credit as 
they deserve, this class of story-tellers being some¬ 
what proverbial for drawing a long bow; but so 
many agree in the following, that I think we may 
as well believe it, as it is a good story at any rate. 
It is said that at Cincinnati, or “ Porkopolis,” as 
it is familiarly called, swine are suffered to run at 
large in the streets, where they subsist and fatten on 
the refuse of the kitchens and markets, and gain an 
honest livelihood by performing the duty of sca¬ 
vengers to admiration. They are so numerous that 
hundreds have no acknowledged owners, but may 
be caught and killed by any who want a supply of 
pork. 
Boys who like exercise on horseback, but who 
have no stabled steeds at command, catch and 
mount the first stately grunter they meet, and may 
be seen, at all hours of the day, gallopping on these 
novel chargers, which do not always seem to dis¬ 
like it. When they do, however, they are not long 
at a loss how to get rid of their riders, for they lie 
down in the first mud-hole they come to, and happy 
is the urchin who jumps off in time to avoid a 
plunge. 
I have read a good story of a lazy, fat sow, which 
had no fancy for such unpaid for labor, and so soon 
as she saw a boy approaching, she would lie down, 
and obstinately resist kicks and entreaties to get 
up, unless her resting place happened to be a bed 
of filth, when she would soon rise and shake her 
fat sides, as if laughing at her roguish tormentors, 
who she well knew would now decline what they 
had before so eagerly sought. E. S. 
Eutawah. 
TREATMENT oFaNIMALS.—N o. U. 
In my last number I endeavored to point out the 
importance of a well regulated temper in every boy 
who has anything to do with the government or 
management of domestic animals. I will now 
point out another evil to which boys are sometimes 
addicted, that is often the cause of much mischief, 
and the ruin of the disposition of many an animal 
otherwise inclined to be gentle and kind. I allude 
to the wanton practice of teasing them by cracking 
whips about their ears, throwing sticks or stones at 
them when they are doing no harm, tying straw, 
bushes, or bladders to their heels or tails, in order 
to see them run, making games at them, or inter¬ 
fering with them, in any way, while they are 
quietly taking their food, and a hundred other 
similar tricks, all of which, have, more or less, 
effect on the temper of the animals, if they are not 
the cause of total ruin. For instance, a horse that 
is teased by the thoughtless play of a stable-boy or 
groom, will first begin by pretending to kick or bite 
his tormentor; after a while he will do so in ear¬ 
nest, and at last the habit will be permanently fixed, 
which it will be almost hopeless to cure when once 
established. 
Instances are on record, where biting horses have 
been punished until they trembled in every joint,, 
and were ready to drop for the want of strength, 
but were never known, in any case, to be cured by 
this treatment, or by any other. The lash was 
forgotten in an hour, and the horse was as ready 
and determined to repeat the offence as before. 
Burckhardt, the traveller, however, makes mention 
of a mode known to the Egyptian soldiery for,cur¬ 
ing this propensity to bite, and practised by them 
with unfailing success. “ They roast a leg of mut¬ 
ton, take it hot from the fire, and present it to the 
offending animal. He plunges his teeth in it, they 
stick fast in the hot meat, and the pain he endures 
makes him careful for the future to bite at nothing 
but his lawful food.” 
A story is related on no particular authority, that 
a nobleman had a wild horse which nobody could 
ride. “I know not what your lordship can do with 
him,” said some one, “ but to set the monkey on 
his back.” So they put a pad on the horse, and 
clapped the monkey upon it with a switch in his 
hand, with which he beat the horse, and set him 
into a furious kicking and galloping, but pug still 
kept his seat. The horse lay down on the ground ; 
but when he threw himself on one side, the mon¬ 
key was upon the other. He ran into a wood to 
brush his rider off; but the monkey dodged from 
side to side, so as to avoid every tree and bush, 
until at last the horse was so sickened, fatigued, 
and broken-spirited, that he ran home to the stable , 
for protection. When the monkey was removed, 
a boy was put in his place, and managed the horse 
with ease. The animal, it is said, never gave any 
trouble afterwards. 
In that beautiful little book called the “ Horse 
and his Rider,” is mentioned a plan for taming in¬ 
tractable horses, which, we believe, has gone out 
of fashion only on account of the trouble attending 
it. The horse was tethered in his stall, with his 
tail to the manger, preventing him from lying down, 
and kept without food or sleep for forty-eight hours 
or more; men, who relieved each other by turns, 
being stationed at his head to rouse him whenever 
he began to doze. This method was the same in 
principle as that by which falconers used to tame 
their hawks; and there can be little doubt that the 
discipline which could subdue those savage and 
impetuous birds, would have been no less effica¬ 
cious in bringing down the unruly temper of the 
more generous quadruped. 
In my next number I shall speak of certain horse¬ 
taming exploits, in w r hich will be mentioned the 
mysterious horse-tamer, Sullivan. S. A. 
