31 JULY 1915, Page 14

CANINE DEFICIENCY.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " ElrECTA.TOR."1 SIE,—That the smallest dogs should attack the greatest has been a problem to me as contrary to the law of self-preserva- tion and hardly explicable as an instance of blind impulse. A toy Blenheim spaniel makes a game of pushing with his paws a tennis ball underneath the sideboard. The space betWeen it rind the floor is about four inches. The other day I surprised him trying to get a football under. Does not this fact seem to show a want of a sense of proportion ? And if in the dog why not in other animals ? I should be pleased to lie:lr of any suggestion on the fact.—I am, Sir,