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was curious to see whether they would jump a second time. Two of 

 them did leap out again, and I let those stay out on the hot sand a 

 little longer than I did the first time. Then I put them back into the 

 basket. No more tried to jump out and I was sure that they had 

 learned their lesson. So I took the basket and pulled it along through 

 the water to the same place where we had it before, and sunk it there. " 

 The following morning he visited his basket and found his fish all there. 

 ' ' He had, it was plain, succeeded in conveying it to the intelligence of 

 these fishes, by an experience very unpleasant to them, that they had 

 better not leap out of the basket. As this story is a true one, it seems 

 to prove that the fishes have a considerable degree of intelligence. " 



A Reasoning Lobster. This story is told in the Bulletin of the U. S. 

 Fish Commission. "The sagacious Crustacean's home was under a 

 rock in Buzzards Bay, in water about five feet deep. The author care- 

 fully adjusted a noose over the hole, and baited it with a piece of Menhaden. 

 The lobster passed its claw through the noose to get the bait, and the noose 

 was drawn upon the claw, but slipped off when the animal had been 

 pulled half out of his hole and he escaped. The noose was fixed again, 

 but this time, instead of putting out his claws as before, the lobster 

 first put his feelers through the noose, felt the string all the way around, 

 and then pushed one claw under the string and seized the bait. The ex- 

 periment was repeated several times, but every new setting of the trap 

 was met in the same deliberate way, as if by one who had thought 

 the matter out." 



There is plenty of evidence that animals have some way of making 

 themselves understood by their associates. An example in point is fur- 

 nished by an English paper, of a couple of thirsty cows which pre- 

 sented themselves at a cottage gate, showing by their uneasiness that 

 they wanted something. Although strangers, they were supplied with 

 water and went off. In half an hour they came back with three others 

 who were likewise thirsty, and when they were likewise supplied, the 

 whole five went off with evident tokens of satisfaction. 



A Tale of Two Dogs. A gentleman, accompanied by two fine speci- 

 mens of the water spaniel, went down to the landing of the Newport 

 ferry at the foot of Lawrence street. Somehow, he became separated 

 from the canines, or rather they failed to follow him aboard. The boat 

 had got out into the stream, when the dogs caught sight of their master 

 and discovered he was fast leaving them ; standing on the edge of the 

 float, both set up a vigorous } r elping which attracted the attention of the 

 b}'standers. Suddenly, the older and larger dog plunged into the river 

 and began to swim rapidly toward the Kentuck} r shore. He had gone 

 about 100 yards when he seemed to became aware that his brute com- 

 panion had not followed. Turning round, he swam back toward the 



