When I come back from Cuba They laid me up a spell, A convalescing from a piece OF a busted Spanish shell fanciers—one of the most successful And while T laid in hospital, being a Indy—keeps these dogs; but Requiring all my yrit they occupy a considerable space on the Some ladies come around one day show-benches. Unless perfectly govd-To cheer us up a Lit.
tempered, they are not-safe animals to And one (she was the daughter keep. The little Spitz dogs and black Of a New York million: Schipperkes are a Continental fancy, im-'She come and took a look at me, ported by smart people, generally ladies.
And sat down in a chair; The Spitz was always a' "quality dog one sees him in old Dutch paiutings of And talked and gossipped with me—Lor'! how I wished shed stay wealthy burghers' houses. 'The Schipperke Till finally the surgeon came was a baryees' watch, sind remains what And ordered her away. he was on the Dutch'canal boats, noisy, Papping, restless, "and excitable. Our 'Then when she come to taking leave, From out her bag she took, val Family, through their Russian con-And made to me a present of nection, have' recently been responsible for a fine new beeed, the white Russivn A little gilt-edged book A saying as she give it me, wolfhound, or Borzoi dog. The Princess of Wales owns some of the finest in the She knew that I'd enjoy The stories that was in it country; but we venture to doubt whether they are as beautiful, or as intelligent, "Bout another soldier-boy.
the Scotch deer hound. But xt I found in it some verses, the present. date, the predominant and By a Mr. Rudyard K,, most fashionable breed is the Chinese wr Relating many anecdotes Mongolia' chow dog: It is apparently Of a certain Thomas A. the ideal animal of the hour, and ix This kind of took my fancy, Possibly. because: the. civil popular among all classes. We wonder why And I read it through and through, lised world ix And found he was first-cousin tired of the high-bred and domesticated To us Yankee " Boys in Blue." breeds, and prefers to try its hand in With some external difference, redomesticating the dog of savage man, But what's the odds o° that? For this is what the chow is by form and He wears a pipe-clayed helmet, inheritance, and it would be unfair to expect And 1s a campaign hat from it the qualities of complete domestica-His natty scarlet tunic tion. In Northern China he had been bred Fits like paper on a wall, for centuries for the sake of his skin. The Whilst owr own service blouses least sentimental of humanity, the Chinese Ain't got no fit at all. kills his dogs when young, skins them, and eats them. He keeps dog-turms for the In every kind of dinate, purpose. The coat being fine and glossy, Like us, he chills or roasts, the creature has been partly domesticated Though he does his work in garrisons," in some districts, but retains many traces And us in frontier posts." besides the sharp muzzle, rough, reddish.
And while exch year at Aldershot yellow coat, and curled tail of its savage His various corps will join, ancestors. It is most uncertain in. temper, You'll find us doing scouting disobedient, and liable to fits of savage: Round Fort Assiniboine. ness. It has almost' none of the re-These are but trifles after all, pose of our good Enylish - breeds, It The difference of the land hus also an inveterate survival- of old And when it comes to fighting habits, the propensity to. attack dom We can take him bythe hand. tic animals.. As a writer in the Daily And if they has us out again, Mail recently. remarked:—" All _own-hope that I may say ers of chows must know that their dog We'll be touching elbows with you, either will run sheep, has run sheep, or is First-cousin Thomas A. at that moment running sheep," An exactly opposite bias is' seen in the Here's looking at you, Tommy Tibetan mastiff or the Albanian " molos-We hope some day to get sus," whose second nature is to attack and A chance to get acquainted bite any dog, fox, or wolf which comes A little better yet. near a flock; but the failing of the At last all ancient jealousies Albanian dog is that he regards strange "Twixt you and us are gone. men as enemies to his flock equally with You've had your Balaclava, strange dogs. It is to be hoped that these We've had our San Juan. chow: dogs will not be allowed to inter-Chicago, U.S.A. breed freely with our indigenous mongrels Janes B. Lariter, in The Spectator. and collies. Cross-breds always tend to temper, and in. this ease the general good nature of English dogs might suffer from Saw Reports. the "yellow "peril" "introduced amongst us.—The Spectator.
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