and does not find him at home, he leaves a stick near his kennel; that means, "I called on you to-day, but you were not at home." If he leaves two sticks, it means, "Come and see me to-morrow." If the dog cannot find a stick, he makes a great many tracks in the dirt that mean the same thing.
When a dog is going by his friend's house, and cannot stop, he will give one short bark, which means, "How are you?" and the dog will answer with two barks, that mean, "First-rate; how are you?"
If my young readers will watch the dogs at play, or as they trot soberly about on business, they will see them using all these signs, and many more that are most interesting; and if they are patient, and love them, they may learn many strange things about the life in dogtown.
