Produced by Irma Spehar, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Transcriber's Note: Punctuation, Spelling and Geographical errors retained as found in the original. _DOG STORIES._ DOG STORIES _FROM THE "SPECTATOR"_ BEING ANECDOTES OF THE INTELLIGENCE, REASONING POWER, AFFECTION AND SYMPATHY OF DOGS, SELECTED FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE COLUMNS OF "THE SPECTATOR" _WITH AN INTRODUCTION_ BY J. ST. LOE STRACHEY NEW YORK: MACMILLAN AND CO. MDCCCXCV "Sir, to leave things out of a book, merely because people tell you they will not be believed, is meanness." (_Dr. Johnson._) _All rights reserved._ CONTENTS. PAGE INTRODUCTION 7 SYLLOGISTIC DOGS 15 THE REASONING POWER OF DOGS 49 EMOTION AND SENTIMENT IN DOGS 99 DOGS AND THE ARTS 119 DOG FRIENDSHIPS 131 CURIOUS HABITS OF DOGS 155 THE SENSE OF HUMOUR AND CUNNING IN DOGS 165 USEFUL DOGS 177 MISCELLANEOUS 193 INTRODUCTION. I. The following Dog Stories are taken from the pages of the _Spectator_, with the permission of the editors and proprietors. It was suggested to me by Mr. Fisher Unwin that the many strange and pleasant stories of dogs which from time to time are sent to the _Spectator_ by its correspondents would, if put together, form a volume of no little entertainment for all who love dogs, or are interested in stories of animal intelligence. Up till now the _Spectator_ dog stories, after the week of their publication, have practically been inaccessible to the general reader; for he is a bold man who will attack a bound volume of a newspaper in search of amusement. Though I at once agreed that the suggested book would be a very readable one, and likely to please dog-lovers all the world over, I did not, till the selection was nearly made, realise how much the stories gain by being grouped together. A single story of a clever dog may amuse, but it is liable to be put aside as an accident, a coincidence, a purely exceptional circumstance which proves nothing. If, however, instead of a single story we have half a dozen illustrating the same form of intelligence, the value of the evidence is enormously increased, and a collection of dog stories may become of very great value in determining such questions as the power of dogs to act on reason as well as on instinct, or their ability to understand human language. The solution of these problems is, I cannot help thinking, materially advanced by the stories in the present book.