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Mattie would say to her, " Eunice, go tell Miss 

 Kate to get on her hat and let us go take a 

 walk." The little dog would run to Miss Kate's 

 room and bark and jump until the young lady 

 would comply. I found that the dog associated 

 the sounds " hat" and " walk" with the act of tak- 

 ing a stroll in the company of the young ladies, 

 but she would act just the same when either one 

 of these words was said to her as she would if 

 one were to repeat a whole canto of Milton ; and 

 I think the young ladies have never quite for- 

 given me for trying to prove to them that Eunice 

 was not a fine English scholar. 



I find, by means of many experiments, that 

 much depends upon the manner of delivering 

 these sounds, but that the animal is largely 

 guided by the sound alone is proven by the fact 

 that some dogs understand English and others 

 French, German, or some other language, and 

 they do not really understand unless addressed 

 in the speech with which they are familiar. A 

 short time since I tried a novel experiment with 

 the phonograph and two black-and-tan terriers, 

 mother and son. The son was a notorious talker 

 in the way of barking almost continuously at 

 everything and on all occasions and at all times, 



