354 INTELLIGENCE OF ANIMALS. 



another ; the poor animal, as if stung by emu- 

 lation, instantly repeated his efforts, fractured 

 his skull and died on the spot. 



It may be said that the tones of the voice 

 rather than the words are what the animal 

 understands, yet a dog knows his name however 

 spoken, and a horse understands a whole vo- 

 cabulary of orders. But the intelligence which 

 comprehends the meaning of a tone, is not less 

 than that required to understand a word or 

 sentence. Mr. Hamerton, the artist, widely 

 known as a lover of animals, mentions a favor- 

 ite dog which met an untimely death by drown- 

 ing, and in his lament over his lost pet, says : 

 "He was a dog of rare gifts, exceptionally intel- 

 ligent, who would obey a look where another 

 needed an order. He would sit studying his 

 master's face and had become from careful ob- 

 servation so acute a physiognomist that he read 

 whatever thoughts of mine had any concern for 

 him." 



The shrewd intelligence of our countrymen 

 is nowhere more clearly seen than in the keen 



