i;o DOG STORIES 



CUNNING DOGS. 



A DOG AND A WHIP. 



\_May 1 8, 1889.] 



You have lately published several dog 

 stories. Allow me to send you another for 

 publication should you think it worthy. It 

 was told me to-day by a lady whom I cross- 

 examined to get full details : " Some twenty 

 years back we had a poodle white, with one 

 black ear. After the manner of his race, 

 he was never quite happy unless he carried 

 something in his mouth. He was intelligent 

 and teachable to the last degree. The great 

 defect in his character was the impossibility 

 of distinguishing meum from tuum. Any- 

 thing he could get hold of he seemed to 

 think, according to his dogged ethics, to be 

 fairly his own. On one occasion he entered 

 the room of one of the maidservants and 

 stole her loaf of bread, carefully shutting the 

 door after him with his feet the latter part 

 being a feat I had taught him. The woman 

 Irish was scared, and thought that the 



