10 FACT AGAINST FICTION'. 



conversant with the sounds and to whom a nearer 

 ai3proacli is desired. 



It 2)ositively enrages me to see a stupid man 

 take a sensible dog up to the spot where a bird 

 has fallen. There is the man, and tliere is the 

 dog, on the exact spot where the fall took place; 

 the eyes of the man ought to convince him that 

 the bird is not there, and the nose of the dog does 

 convince him that tlie bird has run away ; yet 

 for all this, the moment the dog essays to foot 

 the lost game, the foolish biped calls him back, 

 and puts him on the spot on which the bird would 

 have been if he had been dead. If not there, he 

 7nust have run away ; yet the dog is not permitted 

 to overtake him, but is told to seek dead, when 

 the dog really knows that the bird is no more 

 dead than he is. A really good retriever has, or 

 should have, his brains as free to his own use as 

 his nose, and both should be uninterruptedly 

 assigned to him for the purpose he is told to effect. 

 If you don't Avant him to effect it, don't tell him 

 to try. If his mind is disconcerted by constant 

 verbal interference, and he is not free to mako 

 use of liis mysterious powers in every possible 

 way, why, the wiser quadruped must fail, through 



