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graduate, very affectionate and intelligent. He took it 

 with him to his first curacy, and there the dog became 

 great friends with the landlady's cat. Presently the cat had 

 kittens, and, needless to say, a man was next day occupied 

 in the painful duty of drowning four of the innocents. 

 The terrier looked on, much interested, apparently, but 

 " saying nothing." In the course of the day he quietly 

 retrieved every one of the drowned kittens and replaced 

 them by the side of their mother. Another incident the 

 vicar related of the same dog. One day master and dog 

 were shopping in Chesterfield, when the dog accidentally 

 knocked over a pot and broke it. Immediately he bolted 

 out of the shop and out of sight (he wouldn't get his 

 master into trouble if he could help it !). Half an hour 

 later his master found him a mile out of the town, on the 

 road home, waiting where the road forked, providing an 

 alternative route. 



PEVERIL TURNBULL. 



March 7, 1914. 



NOTE. A behaviour so complex, a foresight so con- 

 scious, a motive so elaborate, a perception so in- 

 ductively worked out, argue something more than 

 putting two and two together. But is not Mr. Turnbull 

 assuming that the dog acted as he did for the sake of 

 keeping his master out of trouble? He may have fled to 

 save his own skin, and his waiting where the road forked 

 may have been a coincidence. On the other hand, Mr. 

 Turnbull's inferences may have been as just as the dog's 

 were remarkable. But human inference the story re- 

 mains. 



