A COMMERCIAL TREATY BETWEEN A DOG AND A HEN.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Your dog-loving readers may be into ested in the following instance of animal sagacity. 'Bob' is a fine two- year-old mastiff, with head and face of massive strength, heightened by great mildness of expression. One day he was seen carrying a hen, very gently, in his month, to the kennel. Placing her in one corner, he stood sentry while she laid an egg, which he at once devoured. From that day the two have been fast friends, the hen refusing to lay anywhere but in Bob's' kennel, and getting her reward in the dainty morsels from his platter. There must have been a bit of canine reasoning here. 'Bob' must have found eggs to his liking,
that they were laid by hens, and that he could best secure a supply by having a hen to himself.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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