2 12 THE SPEECH OF MONKEYS. 



ideas in detail. I know a dog in Charleston, 

 S. C, that will fly into a rage and bark fiercely 

 if you say to him, " Chad, where is that big 

 black dog that whipped you so badly?" But 

 repeated experiments proved to my mind that 

 the dog did not interpret any part of the sen- 

 tence except the words "black dog," and even 

 this seemed to depend chiefly upon the sound 

 "black," and by saying this sound you would get 

 the same results as to use the entire sentence. 

 He had been whipped by a dog of this descrip- 

 tion, and had been so often reminded of it that 

 he had associated the sound with the incident. 



I know a little dog in New York that under- 

 stands the same sound in a similar way and for 

 similar reasons. She also recognizes the name of 

 the lady who owns the black dog. A family with 

 whom I am on close terms of friendship owns 

 an ugly little mongrel, to which two of the 

 daughters are very devoted. They have reared 

 her with great care, and lavished upon her many 

 luxuries far better than most human beings en- 

 joy. The young ladies declared to me that 

 Eunice (which is the dog's name) could under- 

 stand every word they said on any subject that 

 she had been accustomed to hearing. 



