104 DOG STORIES 



" I was much struck with what appeared 

 to me a remarkable instance of a dog posses- 

 sing a conscience, and a few months after- 

 wards, finding it again alone in the room, 

 I asked the same question, while patting it. 

 At once I saw it had been up to some 

 mischief, for with the same look of shame 

 it walked slowly to one of the windows, 

 where it lay down, with its nose pointing to 

 a letter bitten and torn into shreds. On a 

 third occasion, it showed me where it had 

 strewn a number of little tickets about the 

 floor, for doing which it had been reproved 

 previously. I cannot account for these facts, 

 except by supposing the dog must have a 

 conscience." 



The conduct of this dog seems to me, sir, 

 to exhibit something different from fear of 

 punishment, viz., a sense of shame, a re- 

 morse, a desire to confess his fault, and even 

 to expiate it by punishment, in order to feel 

 the guilt no longer. He rather sought 

 punishment, than feared it. 



TH. HILL. 



