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that it would buy something to eat, but that 

 it would buy several things, among which he 

 could exercise a right of choice. What is 

 perhaps most remarkable is that his proceed- 

 ings were entirely independent, and for his 

 own benefit, not that of any teacher or 

 master. A. L. W. 



[Feb. 17, 1877-] 



WHEN a student at Edinburgh, I enjoyed 

 the friendship of a brown retriever, who 

 belonged to a fishmonger in Lothion Street, 

 and who was certainly the cleverest dog I 

 have ever met with. He was a cleverer dog 

 than the one described by "A. L. W." be- 

 cause he knew the relative value of certain 

 coins. In the morning he was generally to 

 be seen seated on the step of the fishmonger's 

 shop-door, waiting for some of his many 

 friends to give him a copper. When he 

 had got one, he trotted away to a baker's 

 shop a few doors off, and dropped the coin 

 on the counter. If I remember rightly (it 

 is twelve or fifteen years ago), his weakness 

 was "soda scones," Jf he dropped a half- 



