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wlien not required ; perhaps it is partly because they 

 are, unlike " the literary gentleman/' not <( exposed 

 to much anxiety respecting family matters." 



Some time ago a friend brought us a small terrier,, 

 under the impression that it was our Toby that had 

 got lost. It was an amiable little creature, and, un- 

 like Toby, willing to make friends with any one. On 

 being noticed it would look up, shake its head, and 

 actually laugh with satisfaction. If laughter be a sign 

 of intelligence and it is an attribute generally sup- 

 posed to be confined to the most intelligent of all 

 animals,' man our little friend must have been quite 

 an ' ' infant phenomenon." This is the first instance 

 J know about of a dog laughing ; but my wife assures 

 me they had a dog which, although bold and 

 courageous, would, on being left in the house aloner 

 cry " real tears/' just like a child. 



- J. H. 



The strategic shifts of Colonel Perkins' (Pur tons' ?) 

 dog, Bully, at Bangalore, remind me of another 

 story connected with Bangalore. The late Rev. 

 William Campbell, who was formerly a missionary 

 there, on visiting Dublin, to advocate the claims of the 

 London Missionary Society, went with some friends 

 to see the Zoological Gardens in that city. While 

 walking through the gardens, their attention was 

 drawn to a particular den by the excitement of a smal[ 

 crowd before it. On approaching the place, they 

 found it was the den of the Indian bear. Bruin was 



