JAN. 27, 1906.] 

Dogs and Men. 
In Lovell’s “Panzodlogicomineralogia”’ are 
enumerated all the rare medicinal properties at- 
tributed by the ancients to dogs. It would re- 
quire a more extensive work, and one, too, 
which should be no less formidable in title, to 
detail the various physical, mental and moral 
qualities ascribed to the dog by ancients and 
moderns. 
An ancient Latin couplet, quoted by one of the 
story tellers of the Gesta Romanorum—that 
curious collection of moral tales told by the 
medieval monks—avers that: “In a dog there 
are four things: a medicinal tongue, a distin- 
guishing nose, unshaken fidelity and unremitting 
watchfulness.” 
In the quaint homily based on the story we 
are told that priests ought diligently to cultivate 
these four canine qualities, first—that their 
tongue possess the power of a physician in heal- 
ing the sick in heart; second—as a dog by keen- 
ness of scent distinguishes a fox from a hare, a 
priest by the quickness of his perception in 
auricular disclosures should discover their true 
character; third—as a dog is the most faithful 
and ready in defense of his master, so priests 
should show themselves staunch advocates of 
the faith; and fourth—as a dog by barking be- 
trays the approach of thieves, so the faithful 
priest is the watchdog of the great King. 
It is to be said for this monkish preacher of 
the Middle Ages, that he had quite as true an 
insight into dog nature and discovered in canine 
qualities material for precepts fully as edifying 
and instructive, as did the English clergyman 
who some hundreds of years later wrote in his 
“Divine Songs for the Use of Children,” the 
well known lines: 
Let dogs delight to bark and bite, 
For God hath made them so, ~ 
For the nature of dogs is like the nature of 
men, two-sided; and if as Isaac Watts teaches 
we should learn in infancy to shun the bicker- 
ing ways of quarrelsome dogs, it is none the 
less true that we have not yet outgrown the 
time when we may readily discover, as did the 
monk, some other canine qualities which are 
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