RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32265, 7 April 1970, Page 19

RANDOM REMINDER

DOG-GONE

The sagacity of man’s four-footed friend and we refer to the dog, for we have no great reason to believe that the horse is anything but a wilful creature which moves most laboriously when it is expected to be brisk—is widely acclaimed, but there was an itinerant animal, passing through Cathedral Square the other day, which left most of its contemporaries far behind in demonstrating its awareness of the ways of the world. This somewhat nonde-script-looking dog was clearly convinced that if it

was to fulfil its canine destiny, it had to leave the centre of the Square, and get across to the northwest side. But this manoeuvre it found exceedingly difficult, because Cathedral Square at that time was in the possession of a large number of very young gentlemen in very old cars, who seemed intent on chasing their own tail-lights—those, that is, who had them. Two or three attempts by the dog to get across the Square ended in near-disaster and a hurried retreat. But this dog knew what

he was about. He trotted 40 or 50 yards until he came to a pedestrian crossing. And there he waited, for there were no pedestrians at that time. He bided his time: had there been a lamp-post handy, he would no doubt have leaned on it and crossed his legs. But after a while, a knot of people used the crossing, and for them, even the mobile group ground briefly to a halt. And with the men and women, went the dog. All very simple.