CHAPTER VI. 



"Some have meat and canna eat, 

 And some would eat that want it; 

 But we have meat and we can eat, 

 Sae let the Lord be thankit." 



is surprising how a dog's little 

 wits will grow after long and 

 friendly intercourse with hu- 

 man kind. Some of those cruel scientific 

 folks, who use dogs as prying children 

 do dolls, to find out what kind of saw- 

 dust they hold, think we should have a 

 more brotherly feeling for monkeys than 

 for dogs, as they are nearer akin to us. 

 Perhaps they are, but I would rather be 

 on intimate terms with a polite and intel- 

 lectual dog than to be loved by a whole 

 wilderness of monkeys. These animals 

 can open cocoanuts very cleverly, to be 



