The merest tyro in the study of dog language can readily distinguish between the bark of joythe "deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home," as Byron put itand the angry snarl, the yelp of pain, or the accents of fear.

The veriest tyro realizes that death by crude accident is inadmissible as a determining factor in serious drama; and murder is practically (though not absolutely) relegated to the melodramatic domain.

The great theory advanced by this editorial tyro, was, that a majority of any community had a right to do as it pleased.