COURAGE IN ANIMALS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEC teros.”] SIR,—The anecdote of the rabbit and the stoat in the article on "Courage in Smaller Animals "—Spectator of October 22nd --reminds me of an incident which may amuse some of your readers. When on the Perso-Afghan frontier in the winter of 1884-85, I had a black greyhound called who would never keep with the other dogs but ranged about on his own account. One day on the march near a place called Bizd, when a long way off we saw him tearing in our direction at Lull speed, never stopping until he had taken refuge among
the horses. Presently a tiny lamb, which had evidently gob lost in the brushwood from some passing flock, and had taken the dog for its mother, came running after him. Tails' had often run after other animals, but had never been run at before, and was in abject terror.—I am, Sir, &c.,
ALEXANDER FINN.
British Consulate, Malaga, October 31st.
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