120 ANECDOTES OF ANIMALS. 



on seeing him, felt so certain his owner was at the door, 

 that he delivered the bag to him, with which he ran 

 home while his master was seeking him. From that 

 time it became his regular duty to fetch the letters daily. 



Sir Walter Scott tells us of the remarkable compre- 

 hension of human language evinced by his bull-clog 

 terrier, called Camp. He understood so many word?, 

 that Sir Walter felt convinced an intercourse with dumb 

 animals might be enlarged. Camp once bit the baker, 

 for which Sir Walter beat him, and at the same time 

 explained the enormity of the offence ; after which, to 

 the last moment of his life, he never heard the least 

 allusion to the story, in whatever voice or tone it might 

 be mentioned, without getting up and retiring into the 

 darkest corner of the room, with great appearance of 

 distress. Then if it were said that the baker had been 

 well paid, or that the baker was not hurt after all, 

 Camp came forward, capered, barked, and rejoiced. 

 When he was unable, towards the end of his life, to 

 attend his master in his rides, he watched for his 

 return, and the servant used to tell him Sir Walter 

 was coming down the hill, or through the moor. 

 Camp never mistook him, although he did not use any 

 gesture, but either went out at the front to ascend tho 

 hills, or at the back to get at the moor side. 



These anecdotes, taken from many others concerning 

 terriers, cannot be better ended than by some concern- 

 ing a Russian terrier. As I once was acquainted with 

 an inimitable monkey, named Jack, so do I now know 

 an inimitable dog of that name. He is small, white, 

 with some quaintly placed dark brown spots on the 

 body and head, his eyes are of the most brilliant black, 

 he is slightly and genteelly made, and he has a quantity 



