-iSo THE HOME OF A NATURALIST. 



by the fact that the well was half full of decayed 

 leaves and mud, so that the bath was far from pleasant 

 to a person of cleanly habits. Yet no sooner did poor 

 Slop scramble up than his tormentor pushed him in 

 again. The second time he managed to evade her, 

 and made off. In the evening the lady's contrition 

 prompted her to offer him a saucer of cream to " make 

 it up," but Slop turned away with evident scorn. 

 Again and again she coaxed him, but he rejected every 

 attempt at heing friends. Some one else, thinking that 

 perhaps he had taken a dislike to the cream, or was 

 suspicious of it, offered it, and at once he accepted the 

 dainty with pleasure ; but from the hand which had 

 treated him with such indignity Prince Mordge would 

 take no favour. It was observed that, though he for- 

 gave the young lady, after that time he practised a 

 certain reserve in all future dealings with her, and into 

 the garden he never again went of his own free choice. 



CHAPTER IV. 



That he could reason, and act promptly after putting 

 this and that together in his own mind, was daily 

 shown. Often when his master was going to sail up 

 the fiord he would leave Slop on shore for the purpose 

 of observing his line of action. The sagacious fellow 

 would stand on the beach, observing carefully in what 

 direction the boat was going. Having judged from its 

 position, &c., which part of the shore along the route 

 would probably be the nearest to the boat, he would 



