FROM THE "SPECTATOR." 61 



CAUTIOUS DOGS. 



INTELLIGENT SUSPICION IN A DOG. 



, 1888.] 



THE following instance ot dog instinct (or 

 reasoning ?) will, I think, interest some of 

 your readers. About a fortnight ago, while 

 crossing the Albula Pass, our driver stopped 

 for a few moments at the little restaurant on 

 the highest point of it. A rough kind of 

 herdsman's dog, of no particular breed, I 

 suppose, came out and sat down by the 

 carriage and looked up at us. We happened 

 to have a few Marie biscuits in the carriage, 

 so I threw half of one out to him. I suppose 

 he had no experience in Huntley and 

 Palmer's make, for he looked at and smelled 

 it carefully, and then declined to eat it, but 

 again looked up at me. I then took the 

 remaining half, bit off and ate a little bit of 

 it, and then threw over the rest to him. 

 This time he ate it at once, then turned and 

 ate the first piece, which he had before 

 refused, and at once came and asked for 



