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Bully. The peon was sent for and interrogated ; lie 

 had not seen the dog. As a last resource, inquiry was 

 made of the horse-keepers down at the stables, D. 

 The reply was ' Yes ; the dog has passed through the 

 gate, D, some time before/ Taking advantage of my 

 occupation, and the absence of his master, Bully had 

 left the house and taken his way to the cantonment by 

 the only path by which he could have escaped un- 

 noticed by the peon that shown by the dotted line. 3 ' 

 It seems to us quite impossible to account for the 

 dog's action, as above narrated, without attributing to 

 him the exercise of reasoning powers, not merely in 

 selecting the route by which he finally escaped, but in ' 

 the manoeuvres by which he endeavoured to assure 

 those who were watching him that he had given up all 

 hope of escaping. Doubtless, if he had reasoned more 

 perfectly, he would even have allowed his ears to seem 

 asleep, instead of leaving them cocked. But very few 

 of us human beings simulate sleep without some such 

 error, by which any observant person would be enabled 

 to detect the trick. Either the muscles of the face are 

 not perfectly relaxed ; or the hands or feet are left in 

 a constrained attitude ; or the position of the body 

 generally is unlike that which a sleeping person would 

 assume ; or else the breathing is unnaturally re- 

 strained. And again, though Bully was too demon- 

 strative in his contrition, and afterwards in his attempts 

 to hide the consciousness of failure, it was not for 

 want of reasoning power. Few of us know how to 

 act such parts as he tried to play, with perfect correct- 



