FROM THE " SPECTA TOR? 3 1 



evidently been to cool himself in the river 

 (thirty yards to the right, it being low tide), 

 and, thinking I would go on at the ordinary 

 pace without him, he, after his bath, struck 

 directly at a long diagonal for the point I 

 would have reached rf I had not turned back 

 to look for him. He did not seem to have 

 the slightest misgiving as to his sense of the 

 distance I ought to have walked during the 

 time of his bath. His turning was done 

 seemingly with a calm assurance of certainty. 

 I may add that there were twenty to thirty 

 foot-passengers scattered over the portion of 

 road in question at the time, whose footsteps 

 might have effaced my scent on the watered 

 granite macadamised roadway, even sup- 

 posing the dog to have tried his sense of 

 smell, ivJiich he did not, as far as I could see, 

 and I noticed him carefully. 



W. G. S. 



