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can be taught to go to m-arket with money, to repair to a known 

 butcher, and to carry home the meat in fafety. They can be taught 

 to dance to mufic, and to fearch for and find any thing that is loft*. 



There is a dog at prefent belonging to a grocer in Edinburgh, 

 who has for fome time amufed and aftoniflied the people in the 

 neighbourhood. A man who goes through the ftreets ringing a bell 

 and felling penny pies, happened one day to treat this dog with a 

 pye. The next time he heard the pyeman's bell, he ran to him with 

 impetuofity, feized him by the coat, and would not fufFer him to pafs. 

 The pyeman, who underftood what the animal wanted, fliowed him 

 a penny, and pointed to his mafter, who ftood in the ftreet-door, 

 and faw what was going on. The dog immediately fupplicated his 

 mafter by many humble geftures and looks. The mafter put a penny 

 into the dog's mouth, which he inftantly delivered to the pyeman, 

 and received his pye. This traffick between the pyeman and the 

 grocer's dog has been daily pradtifed for months paft, and ftill con- 

 tinues. 



Dogs, horfes, and even hogs, by rewards and punifhments, and, I 

 am afraid, often by cruelty, may be taught to perform adions, as we 

 have frequently feen in public exhibitions, which are truly aftonifli- 

 ing. But of thefe we muft not enter into any detail. 



With regard to the hoffe, the gentlenefs of his difpofitions, and 

 the docility of his temper, are fo well and fo univerfally known, 

 that it is unneceflary to dwell long upon the fubjed. To give fome 

 idea of what inftrudion horfes receive when in a domeftic ftate, we 

 fliall mention fome traits of their form and manners when under 



no 



* For thefe, and many other Inftances of the fagacity and docility of the dog, the 

 reader may confuh S^mpjis ^adrufedum a Joanne Raio, p. 6, ^c. 



