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Show "Going to the Dogs." Tho phrase', "going totBe dogs." with which Father llerunrd Vaughan has been making effective play In connection connec-tion with pet-worship, has puzzled the explainers ot' metaphorical expressions rather needlessly. Jt has oven been suggested that It Is a profane perversion perver-sion of "going to tho gods," and an allusion al-lusion has been detected "to "canls," the dog throw, tho worst throw with tho dice among tho ancient Ilomans. Shakespeare's "Throw physic to tho dogs," and tho Scriptural "Give not that which Is holy unto tho dogs," have been quoted In connection with tho expression. Hut it seems n fairly obvious reference to tho fate of tho worn-out horso, condemned to bo slaughterer1 i"he old Greek curse, "Go to tho crow 1" may bo compared, referring re-ferring as It did to the Greek's horror of having his body left unburled as food for carrion birds. London Chronicle. |