Natural Telepathy 



my day must be spent in study or tinkering or 

 farm work, he would bid me good morning and go 

 off soberly to explore the premises, as dogs are 

 wont to do. But when I met him silently with the 

 notion that the day was my day off, to be wasted 

 in shooting or fishing or roving the countryside, 

 then in some way Don caught the notion in- 

 stantly; he would be tugging at his leash before I 

 reached him, and no sooner was he free than he 

 was all over the yard in mad capers or making 

 lunatic attempts to drag me off on our common 

 holiday before breakfast. 



That any dog of mine should obey my word, 

 doing gladly whatever I told him, was to be 

 expected ; or that in the field he should watch for 

 a motion of my hand and follow it instantly, 

 whether to charge or hold or come in or cast left 

 or right, was a simple matter of training; but 

 that this particular dog should, unknown to me, 

 enter into my very feeling, was certainly not the 

 result of education, and probably not of sight or 

 sense, as we ordinarily understand the terms. 

 When we were together of an evening before the 

 fire, so long as I was working or pleasantly read- 

 ing he would lie curled up on his own mat, without 

 ever disturbing me till it was time for him to be 

 put to bed, when he would remind me of the fact 

 by nudging my elbow. But if an hour came when 



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