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Try again. Strike gently, bo as not to cow, or threaten to 

 strike, that captive monkey, and see if he does not face round, and 

 give you a bit of his mind at once. He" commences balking with 

 great volubility and though you cannot understand him he means a 

 great deal It is very evident from his demeanour he does, his face 

 and bearing being full of rapid expression, 



I have often thought it a very good thing we do not know all 

 that quarrelsome dogs say to each other, for there must be Borne 

 frightfully had language used sometimes. The very style of the 

 growling of some of them makes one shudder, it sounds so full of 

 coarse oaths. But they can talk civil talk to each other also. I had 

 a tine heavy dog, half fox-hound, half Cuban blood-hound, which 

 had an excellent nose. He came on the scent of antelope, and 

 followed it up till it was warm, and he could make it out. 

 Knowing from sad experience that be was much too portly to catch 

 an antelope himself, Jim abruply left the scent, and went in search 

 of Juno, the fleetest of the kangaroo hounds, then hunting for herself 

 about a quarter-of-a-mile off. Back the two scampered together in 

 a great hurry, he picked up the old scent, and followed it up, till he 

 fairly Laid hex in view, and then away she went, he keeping her in 



I as best he could by cutting corners. To bring her away from 

 her own chances of sport, and that so promptly, and to get her to 

 accompany him back in such a hurry, he must have conveyed to 

 her mind a very clear idea of some definite sport immediately in 

 hand. No human being interfered. They did it all themselves. 

 But dogs can also make themselves intelligible to men, for we have 

 lived so much with them that we have in some measure learned 

 their language. Though we do not know all they say about it, man 

 can well understand from the manner of a dog's giving tongue, when 

 it thinks it has hit upon a scent, and when it is sure it has a warm 

 one, and when it is iu view. A dog's whimper, its giving tongue, 

 baying, barking, growling, moaning, howling, yelping, are all 

 distinct sound-, with a distinct significance, which man has 

 learnt to understand. He has learnt a little also of the many 

 different intonations in those sounds, of the differing force of 

 expression in them, and of the looks of face, and motions of tail, 

 and sometimes of paw and tongue and raised bristle with which 

 they are accompanied. If he knew more he would understand 

 also how dogs Bpeai to each other in silence by signs, or expres- 



