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caused by will, memory, perception of cause and effect, 

 agreement and difference, and a knowledge of its valueless 

 .results. Instances are related where certain dogs would not 

 remain with a shooter who missed frequently. All dogs will 

 lose interest in their work if a bird is not shot occasionally 

 or if no birds are found. Dogs which have been properly 

 raised where there was poultry will not kill them; ones 

 which have never seen poultry will hunt and kill them 

 eagerly the former have the necessary knowledge, the 

 latter have not. Dogs are universally susceptible to flattery 

 and approbation, which is also a very common property of 

 high intelligence. 



A sensible dog, when hunted a few times on certain 

 grounds, learns the haunts of the birds, and, when hunting, 

 will go from one haunt to another, thus showing knowledge 

 and a memory of no mean capacity. If a trained dog is 

 chained while his master goes afield, he becomes excited, 

 barks violently and endeavors to break away to follow; if he 

 fails, he utters howls of grief and disappointment. Mr. S. 

 T. Hammond, an acknowledged authority on dogs and 

 their training, in his admirable work entitled Training vs. 

 Breaking, says: "Some dogs are possessed of remarkable 

 reasoning faculties and appear intuitively to understand just 

 what you wish, while others are slow to learn and require 

 more time to develop their latent powers." In the Ameri- 

 can edition of Stonehenge, entitled " The Dogs of Great 

 Britain and America," is the following paragraph, viz.: "This 

 last (false pointing) was from a want of mental capacity, for 

 it is by their reasoning powers that these dogs find out 

 when they have made a mistake, and without a good knowl- 

 edge box the pointer and setter are, for this reason, quite 

 useless." 



Nor are the acts mechanical during the primary lessons. 

 The simple fact that the dog can comprehend the trainer's 



