Page 35 - Jack's victory and other stories about dogs

his lofty place, and mount to it over bis bleeding

body.
The difficulties in the way of this will be at

once apparent. The society of my dogs was the

moat completely organized that can be imagined.

There was, ay we have seen, first a supreme ruler,
then subordinate rulers, then patient subjects.

There were, to be sure, many local and temporary

disturbances, many private quarrels. There were

always dissatisfied dogs, who believed in their
own d im s to be the filers and not the ruled, but

these got badly whipped whenever they under­

took to make their claims good. Then there were

those who never attempted a fight after their

first defeat, but on the contrary, made themselves
miserably happy over the quarrels of their suc­

cessful rivals. By growling " I told you so,” u I

told you so,” day in and day out, they showed
their unalterable conviction that dog society was

going to pi sees. These, had they been human

beings, would have been called “croakers,” but

being dogs they were only "yow-yows,"

Of course this dog society, like human govern-?