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section than the Toy Spaniels. The Princess of Wales 

 was among the exhibitors. If anyone wants to see a 

 good collection of ' Japs ' and ' Poms ' and ' Skyes ' 

 and ' Dachs ' and ' Charlies/ so the ladies ten- 

 derly call them, at Regents Park, he will find 

 them." 



The following related by the late Hon. Grantley 

 Berkeley, strongly illustrative of the sagacity and 

 thinking powers of dogs, may be interesting to some of 

 my readers : " I had a dog called ' Wolf,' at Teffont 

 Mane House, in Wiltshire, and when I fed my tame 

 pheasants and partridges I always took him with me. 

 This dog had seen my caution when I approached the 

 birds and always obeyed my signal to lie down by the 

 gun till I had done feeding them. When the game be- 

 gan to get to an age to stray, a considerable number 

 used to come upon the lawn in front of the windows. 



" One afternoon the lawn being, to all appearances, 

 clear of birds, I sent Wolf to hunt a rabbit out of a cir- 

 cular flower bed, for me to shoot. The dog obeyed the 

 sign, but no sooner had he entered the laurels, than he 

 made a sort of snap with his jaws, a thing he always 

 did when he was not pleased, and returned to my heels 

 with rather a sheepish look. The sign to hunt having 

 been repeated the same thing occurred and on his re- 

 turning to me with a peculiar expression in his face, I 

 went to the laurels to ascertain what hindered his obe- 

 dience. 



" To my great pleasure I found about a dozen young 

 pheasants, into whose presence he was fearful of in- 

 truding, so I lay down on the lawn close to the pheas- 



