DOGS AND BICYCLES.
[To TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—As a bicyclist I have been much interested in the subject you discuss in the Spectator of October 17th, and I have observed a marked improvement in dogs with respect to evading the " bike." I was much interested in a recent example of canine intelligence. A dog was unaware of my approach till really too late to turn from my path. Instead it fell upon its stomach and rolled over out of my way. But I think your deduction from the hare incident—viz., that the hare saw the cyclist coming but misjudged the speed of his approach—is wrong. I think the hare was oblivious of him till it sprang, because from the position of a hare's eyes it cannot see in front of it. I have, when driving, met a hare as your cyclist did, and I noticed that the moment it heard the conveyance it turned its head, saw, and diverged. On inquiry I found it to be no uncommon event for a man to seize a hare by his hand which had not seen him straight
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