FROM THE " SPECTA TOR." 37 



THE REASON OF DOGS. 



\Nw. 13, 1875.] 



HAVING often read, with great pleasure, the 

 anecdotes about dogs which from time to 

 time appear in the Spectator, I venture to 

 send you one which has come under my own 

 observation, and which, it seems to me, 

 shows an effort of reasoning implying two 

 distinct ideas one the consequence of the 

 other more interesting than many of those 

 clever performances of educated dogs which 

 may or may not be merely mechanical 

 actions. 



The dog who performed the following 

 trick was then a great, half-grown, awkward 

 puppy, whose education, up to that time, 

 had been much neglected. It has been 

 better attended to since, and now, although 

 sportsmen probably consider such an animal 

 sadly thrown away upon a lady, he is a very 

 pleasant friend and companion. My two 

 dogs, Guy and Denis, form as capital a pair, 

 for contrast's sake, as one need wish to see. 

 They are both handsome does of their kind 



