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which greeted this performance will please be understood. “Stop a bit,” said the dog’s 
master. ‘“ Here, Rover, give it to me,” and the dog brought the kettle to him. Taking 
it from his mouth, his master put his hand into the kettle, the ld being off, and took 
out the partridge. Chased by the dog, it had crept into the kettle to hide, and the dog, 
not being able to draw it out, just brought the lot. 
On the other hand, I imagine that the capacity for bemg taught is greater in the 
elephant than in the dog. It begins, for one thing, so astonishingly early. In the 
civilized province of Uganda the natives consented at once to the notion of trying to 
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Photograph by C. Reid, 
Wishaw. 
FLAT COATED RETRIEVER. 
See the Author’s story about the Retriever and the Partridge. 
tame the African elephant. They caught a little one, not weaned, and brought it to Sir 
Harry Johnston. In three days it was perfectly tame and busy learning the new life. 
It would come into the rooms without fear and touch and. smell the unfamiliar objects 
in them. Being fed from a bottle, it almost at once saved the men the trouble of hold- 
ing it. It took the bottle from them im its trunk, held it to its mouth and sucked away 
till it was empty. Mr. Lockwood Kipling and others rather decry the elephant’s 
natural intelligence, saying that it works so much to order that its services are almost 
like those of a machine when you turn a handle. They do not say this im so many 
words, but imply it. I think this is a mistake of a kind not uncommon. No doubt 
the elephant’s actions, controlled by a series of not intelligent methods, is mechanized 
to any extent. He is so clever in understanding the limits of his teacher that he 
makes himself a machine, working to pressure of the ankus and other signs. Horses, 
used for a very limited number of jobs, like “bus horses, for instance, become mechanized 
in the same way. Hence the saying out at the front that the artillery horses, largely 
recruited from our omnibuses, “wanted a bell to start them.’ Ponies, which are used 
