Letter: An old saying can teach a dog new tricks

Published 6 June 2018

From Brian King, Barton On Sea, Hampshire, UK

Danny Chambers quotes William Hutchinson, an advocate of positive training for dogs: “Be to his virtues ever kind. Be to his faults a little blind” (10 March, p 24). Is this epigram the ultimate in doggerel?

Issue no. 3181 published 9 June 2018

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