260 EDUCATION OF ANIMALS BY MAN. 



q. Various crimes, such as 



1. Theft in all its degrees, up to highway 



robbery. 



2. The murder or mutilation of man or 



other animals, for the purposes of 

 revenge or for other nefarious pur- 

 poses. 



3. Services to themselves. 



a. The use of money, including buying or purchasing 



by the dog. 



b. Begging for their own behoof. 



4. Services equally to themselves and to man include, for 

 instance, the restraint imposed upon their natural appetites, 

 the wonderful self-control of which they become capable. 



This self-restraint, or self-denial, while it is one of man's 

 greatest educational triumphs, is alone sufficient to repay 

 him for all his trouble, foreshadowing, as it does, the yet 

 hidden possibilities of what he may achieve from the do- 

 mestication and moral education of the anthropoid apes. Thus 

 the truffle-hunting dog, a small dog bred from the French 

 poodle, though very fond of truffles, never eats them, ' being 

 trained not to do so.' The shepherd's collie is similarly 

 taught not to touch milk, while in other dogs the restriction 

 refers to the even greater temptation of uncooked flesh of 

 various kinds. 



The useful accomplishments of the lower animals, the 

 result of man's training, may be studied as illustrative, on 

 the one hand, of what may be achieved by a single human 

 teacher, and, on the other hand, of what may be exhibited 

 by a single animal species. 



An idea of what one man can do in developing the mental 

 and bodily powers of animals may be gained from a study of 

 the animal feats which resulted from the labours of Bisset, 

 the animal trainer or teacher of Perth. He had animals of 

 the most diverse genera and species thoroughly under com- 

 mand ; in his hands they became pliant, obedient, good-na- 

 tured. He developed in them good manners ; taught them to 

 offer obeisance or greeting to their audience or spectators 

 for he exhibited his performing animals before great assem-, 



