THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 209 



approaching, the wagon made its last homeward 

 trip for the day, and the men working in the 

 meadow prepared to go home. The driver of the 

 wagon, supposing the men from the meadow 

 were following and had closed the gates, left 

 them open, and one of these was between the 

 corn-field and a pasture containing a number of 

 cattle. The men, however, did not follow the 

 wagon, but took a near way across the field, and 

 the gate was left open. While the family was 

 at supper one of the collies was restless and 

 barked continually, and gave such signs of un- 

 easiness as to assure all that something was 

 wrong. His master went to the door, and the 

 dog ran to the gate in the front of the house and 

 continued barking and lashing his tail with great 

 energy. The master followed to the front gate, 

 and the dog immediately ran barking down the 

 road, but looking back from time to time to see 

 that his master followed — which he did, and 

 was thus led to the open gate, where he found 

 the other collie on guard and keeping the cattle 

 from passing, which they w r ere trying to do. 

 What less than reason could have prompted these 

 dogs to such an act? And what less than speech 



could have enabled them to execute this feat? 

 14 



