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APPENDIX. 



I wrapped the handle of Juno's basket with soft 

 cloth. I am accustomed to send single books (my work 

 on Colt Training) to correspondents, not in the basket, 

 but fastened to it with rubber rings. The basket has 

 a little bell on the imder side. When the mail train 

 has been in a few minutes. I take down the basket and 

 the bell tinkles. Juno hears this and comes to the 

 veranda door, all alert for the errand. I open the door, 

 she comes in, pays no attention to visitors, or to the 

 children (of whom she is extremelv fond) but attends 

 strictly to business, watching every motion of mine, 

 intent upon her important commission. I place the 

 basket handle in her mouth, open the door and say 

 ^Tost office" when she bounds away, ''swift as an 

 arrow to its mark.'" Children come out sometimes and 

 w^ant to stop and play with her: bnt ^vith head erect 

 she redoubles her speed, and much sooner than any 

 biped could go and return, back she comes, to report 

 and get a pat on the head and the "ilood Juno." which 

 she expects. So rational a creature is she. that she has 

 learned to connect the whistle of the incoming train 

 with the errand, and if I delay in gettino" out the basket 

 she becomes restless and walks abont the veranda, with 

 the air of one thinking, "I wonder what he is waiting 

 for? Don't he know the train is in?'' 



Juno performs several tricks. I have not taken the 

 time from my professional business to teach her a great 

 many but such as I have undertaken she knows thoro- 

 ughly, and will never forget. At an early age she showed 

 a taste for climbing, which I indulged as far as possi- 



