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wags and nods. There being no occasion 

 this time for supplying him with delicacies, 

 the children only stroked and patted him. 

 The dog, however, had not come out of pure 

 sociability. A child in the water and cakes 

 and candy stood to him in the close and 

 obvious relation of cause and effect, and if 

 this relation was not clear to the children he 

 resolved to impress it upon them. Watching 

 his chance, he crept up behind the child who 

 was standing nearest to the edge of the pier, 

 gave a sudden push, which sent him into the 

 water, then sprang in after him, and gravely 

 brought him to shore. 



To those of us who have had a high 

 respect for the disinterestedness of dogs, this 

 story may give a melancholy proof that the 

 development of the intelligence, at the ex- 

 pense of the moral nature, is by no means 

 exclusively human. 



CLARA FRENCH. 



DOG DECEIVERS. 



\_Feb. 9, 1895.] 

 YOUR fondness for dogs induces me to send 



