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the dog that he rose to his feet, took a duck in his 

 mouth, jumped over the fence into the adjoining field, 

 and leaving the duck there, jumped back and got an- 

 other one, and continued this until he had transferred 

 all the ducks to the other side of the fence, when he 

 again lay down by them. The next time the cattle 

 attempted to go down the path to water, the dog paid 

 no attention to them, but permitted them to pass him 

 and drink. 



To my mind, this was a clear case of the reasoning 

 out by the dog of a special remedy for a set of con- 

 ditions that were entirely new to him, and so the facts 

 are well worth putting on record. 



A second example took place on a marsh in Curri- 

 tuck Sound, where my friend, Mr. C. R. Purdy, was 

 shooting. Harrison, the watchman for the marsh, had 

 a dog named Grover, that he had reared from a puppy, 

 and kept with him on the island. He was a useful 

 animal to Harrison, for he brought him an income of 

 perhaps $75 to $100 a season from the sale of the 

 cripples which he recovered. Harrison was accus- 

 tomed to shove around the marsh morning and even- 

 ing, letting the dog run along the shore while he pushed 

 his light skiff close to the land. Whenever the dog 

 crossed the trail of a cripple that had gone into the 

 marsh, he would follow it, bring the bird out and de- 

 liver it to Harrison. In this way each week a consid- 

 erable number of birds were recovered, which other- 

 wise would have gone to feed the minks and the coons. 



On the particular occasion referred to the birds were 



