flatulence in 'The Solid Mandala'

References to flatulence in Patrick White's 'The Solid Mandala':

• Only the old pot-bellied dogs appeared convinced of the mild pleasures they enjoyed, frolicking and farting, though somewhat cranky with each other. One of them - Runt - lifted his leg on a seedy cabbage and almost overbalanced. (page 24)
  
  
• So they turned, and the two dogs were at once joyful. They tossed their sterns in the air, and cavorted a little. Their tongues lolled on their grinning teeth. One of the dogs farted, and turned to smell whether it was he. (page 69)