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and sores, swarming with vermin, and starving witb 

 liunger. Verily, no one, until they have seen " th^ 

 city of the Faithful," can understand in its full force, 

 " I have not the life of a dog /" 



A newfoundland dog, which, as is common with 

 dogs, took great pleasure in w^alking with his master ; 

 he soon found out that the act of taking hat and gloves, 

 or of merely putting aside books and papers, at certain 

 times of the day, were indications of the master's in- 

 tention of going out, and he expressed his anticipation 

 of pleasure by manifest signs. Several times, how- 

 ever, the dog had been sent home, as his company 

 could not always be convenient to his master. The 

 consequence was, that the dog would take good care 

 not to show that he expected to leave the house, but 

 he would slily steal out of the room as soon as he 

 thought that any indications of a walk had been given, 

 and wait at a certain corner, which the master had to 

 pass daily, and which was at a considerable distance 

 from home. Surely this indicates some operation 

 of the mind not to be accounted for by instinct, 



I can give another more striking instance of mental 

 operation in this intelligent animal : he accompanied 

 a servant who rode to a place some distance from 

 home. The horse was tied to a tree in front of a 

 house while the servant executed his message. When, 

 after some delay, he came out of the house, the horse 

 w^as gone ; he w^ent on a hill, and from this elevated 

 spot he observed the dog leading the horse by the 

 bridle, which the canine leader held in his mouth, both 

 trotting at a moderate pace. The dog brought home 

 the horse and led it to its proper place in the stable. 

 So he was in the habit of leading one of the horses to 

 be watered. This animal w^as sent from the coast 

 of Labrador, and was not of the common long- 



