Canine Etiquette

Convent ioiial rules are most useful in I intereoiirse with straugors, andthisfeel: ing, the result of delibérate reflection among men, seema quite as well underetood by animáis. The nnmber of steps whioh a prince or embassador might advance to meet the other without derogating from hi.s dignity, and the frequent halts and bow.s, find a parallel in the amusing form of canine etiquette, when one dog "spies astranger" at adistance. The first dog stops short, then trots on a little, then oronchea and finally lies flat down, with its nose on its paws, like a skirmi8her ordered to open fire on the enemy. The othor dog, which was less quick siglited, sometimes lies down, too, but more usually trots slowly up, with j occasion.il halts. Tho action of the first eeems clearly to be a snrVival of a time when a dog ' urallycrow-Jied in order to conceal itself the moment it saw any other creature which might hurt it or which, on the oontrary, it might want to stalt. The sudden drop is something like that of a setter when "ci-eeping" up on to the i birds, but more like the croueh of the fox when it sees a hare, or wants to conceal itself from persous whom it sees while it is still tinseen. But now it is observed as pure convention, one which is obviously mere show, but to omit which woold bo a breach of canine etiquette which might and sometimas does lead to a fight.