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DOG STORIES 



[May 3, 1884.] 



How do we know that in inviting dogs to 

 the use of words Sir John Lubbock is 

 developing their intelligence? Are we sure 

 that he is not asking them to descend to 

 a lower level than their own, in teaching 

 them to communicate with us through our 

 proper forms of speech, unnecessary to 

 them? I can vouch for the truth of the 

 following story. A young keeper, living 

 about twelve miles east of Winchester, on 

 leaving his situation gave away a fox-terrier, 

 which had been his constant companion for 

 some months ; he then took another place 

 in the north of Hampshire, near the borders 

 of Berkshire, in a part of the country to 

 which he had never been. The new owner 

 of the dog took her with him to a village 

 in Sussex ; before she had been there long 

 she disappeared, and after a short time found 

 her old master in the woods at his new home. 

 As I have said before, he had never been 

 there before, neither had she. Rather un- 

 gratefully, he again gave the dog away, this 

 time to a man living some way north of 



