Chink : The Development of a Pup 



deliberately to throw into a Wasps' nest with 

 the order, "Fetch it!" 



It took time, but countless disasters began 

 to tell. Chink slowly realized that there were 

 long whips and big, fierce Dogs with wagons ; 

 that Horses have teeth in their heels ; that 

 Calves have relatives with clubs on their heads ; 

 that a slow Cat may turn out a Skunk ; and 

 that Wasps are not Butterflies. Yes, it took an 

 uncommonly long time, but it all told in the 

 end. Chink began to develop a grain — a little 

 one, but a living, growing grain — of good Dog 

 sense. 



II 



It seemed as if all his blunders were the 

 rough, unsymmetrical stones of an arch, and 

 the keystone was added, the structure, his char- 

 acter, made strong and complete, by his crown- 

 ing blunder in the matter of a large Coyote. 



This Coyote lived not far from our camp, 

 and he evidently realized, as all the animals 

 there do, that no man is allowed to shoot, trap, 

 hunt, or in any way molest the wild creatures \/y i\*./ 



in the Park ; above all, in this part, close to the '' N -^ ,/ 



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