27 APRIL 1912, Page 33

A DOG STORY.

[To TUN - EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

Sin,—The following incident may be of interest to your readers : We have a blaok retriever, very well ttained. She is kept chained in a kennel in the yard to which a number o£ fowls have access. During the last few days a hen nearly every day lays an egg in the kennel, the dog meanwhile sitting. outside. Unless some one takes the egg out directly after- wards the dog takes possession of it and eats it. This curious. proceeding raises the questions whether the hen lays the egg. in the kennel for the dog's benefit and whether the dog for her own advantage allows the hen to enter the kennel without