15 AUGUST 1896, Page 17

THE DAINTIES OF ANIMAL DIET.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A large Newfoundland of ours, at home in Germany,. ` Nero' by name, was a confirmed lover of gooseberries. He would go into the garden—always clandestinely, for he knew that the habit was forbidden—and take the berries from the shrubs one by one, howling the while at every prick, though persisting in the pilfering in spite of the pain. He always. left the skins behind.—I am, Sir, &c.,