7 o DOG STORIES 



links together men and dogs, and now and 

 then men and horses, their intelligence being 

 quickened by their dumbness, as is that of 

 deaf and dumb men and women, whose other 

 faculties become so keenly intensified, and 

 who put this and that together so much more 

 quickly than do we who have all our faculties. 

 There are of course "Admiral Crichtons" 

 among dogs, as there are among men, but 

 the difference between dog and dog will 

 generally, I think, be traceable more to 

 human training than to born capacity. The 

 yearning look which Karl gives when (told 

 to " speak ") he gives forth his voice in 

 response, is sometimes piteously like " Oh, 

 that I could really tell all I feel!" He is 

 like, and all dogs of average intelligence are 

 like, the Frenchman I met yesterday on the 

 beach at Hastings, who wanted to know 

 whether he could reach Ramsgate on foot 

 before nightfall, and. how far it was, and who, 

 as I only know a few French words, and am 

 utterly unable to speak or understand sen- 

 tences, was obliged to make me understand 

 his wants by a few nouns such as everybody 



