FURTHER NOTE ON THE CHESAPEAKE 

 BAY DOG. 



By a mischance, which I greatly regret, certain in- 

 teresting examples of intelligence in this breed of dog 

 were omitted from this chapter in the first edition. The 

 first of these deals with a dog owned by Mr. J. G. 

 Morris, of Easton, Md. 



Mr. Morris was shooting from a floating blind not 

 far from the land, and his dog on the shore was gather- 

 ing the birds as they fell, taking them there and put- 

 ting them in a pile. Mr. Morris' blind was just off a 

 fence, which ran down into the water between two 

 fields. The dog had made his pile of ducks close to 

 this fence, and near the water's edge. In the same 

 field with the dog and the ducks were confined some 

 young cattle, and the path which they used in going to 

 the water passed close to the fence against which the 

 dog had collected the ducks, by which he lay. 



As the day passed, the young cattle, following this 

 path, attempted to go down to water, but when they 

 approached the dog, he got up and drove them away. 

 This was repeated several times, for the cattle per- 

 sisted in coming down to the water by their usual path, 

 and the dog would not permit them to approach his pile 

 of ducks. At last the situation became so annoying to 



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