1885.] Psychology. 419 
A dog more mischievous or one more noted for his original 
pranks, I never owned.’ Many of the little things usually taught 
a dog were not to his liking, and for this reason would at times 
bring harsh words upon him, but for originality I have not known 
his equal. 
He had been taught to carry quite heavy loads of shells for me 
into the field to use in hunting, and in this manner he was much 
strengthened in his jaws. It was an easy task for him to pick up 
a twenty-five pound sack of shot and carry it a hundred or more 
feet. One time he surprised me in this feat, for I had used a sack 
of shot to tie him to in the office. Frank was also tied to another 
sack near by. I picked up the sack of shot she was fastened to 
and led her to another part of the office, to another room. After 
a few moments Barney came in carrying his sack of shot. I had 
not intended moving him but this ingenuity was too much in the 
dog’s favor, he was permitted to remain. 
While hunting it was a common practice for him to stand in 
front of me when shooting from a point, stand or blind, and while 
I could watch all birds that came towards me, he would give me 
signal by the expression of his eyes and movement of his head 
from which way I could expect the best shot, and many times I 
have waited until from his signs it was evident the birds were in 
close range, then turning around rapidly make a good shot. 
In hunting small birds he was exceptionally fine, for when out 
with me collecting specimens, as I would crawl along closely 
watching the habits perhaps of some minute bird, he too would 
walk as stealthily as a cat and many times he has by his cau- 
tious actions, a look up into the tree or a wag of his tail, called my 
attention to one or more birds I had not as yet noticed in the tree 
six months of age I began 
the field, this he did quite 
for him to find them, but 
