Friendship For Friends

The dogs of Constantinople are th scavengers of the city. For this reason, as well as from innate humanity, the Turks are tolerant of them, although visitors to the city find them unamiable. As a proof of their intelligence and recognition of friends, MaJ. Johnson relates an experience of hi own. "One evening I was walking with an English officer, when a dog came up and licked his hand. He told m to notlce that she would follow us to the boundary of her district, as he had once petted her and she had never forgotten it. Exactly as he had said, she followed us a little way, and stopped short in the middle of the street. She wagged her tail and looked wistfully after us, but dld not stir when we called her. A few nights afterward, returning alone to my hotel, I passed the same spot, when I suddenly feit a cold nose put into my hand and a tongue licking my palm. I looked down and saw the same dog. She had recognized me as having been with her friend, the officer, and, as before, she followed me to the boundary of ter Siserict."