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 mals to be possessed of individual and companionable traits.

But not of human sagacity. It is their privilege to remain beasts, bound by admirable limitations, thrice happy in the things they do not have to know, and feel, and be. "The Spectator" in a hospitable mood once invited its readers to send it anecdotes of their dogs. The invitation was, as might be imagined, cordially and widely accepted. Mr. Strachey subsequently published a collection of these stories in a volume which had all the vraisemblance of Hans Andersen and "The Arabian Nights." Reading it, one could but wonder and regret that the tribe of man had risen to unmerited supremacy. The "Spectator" dogs could have run the world, the war and the Versailles Conference without our lumbering interference.