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Canine intelligence. I January, 
u mindless accidents of Nature ” ; rather let us consider them 
as wilful strokes of the Adversary, and let us ask for light 
wherewith to design measures that shall tend to render 
these deadly convulsions impossible. 
II. CANINE INTELLIGENCE. 
(Concluded from vol. v., p. 738.) 
II. 
f O one can have watched the ordinary life of dogs 
without observing for himself that much of their 
condudt is not merely the result of habit inherited 
or acquired, but is intelligent, original, and suited to the oc- 
casion. This is of course especially marked in specially 
clever dogs, but all dogs show it in a high degree. The 
other day I got over a fence which my dog could not get 
through ; he immediately showed his intelligence by running 
along the fence for 60 yards or so, and finding out a place 
where he could scramble through. The unintelligent aftion 
would have been to jump at the impossible place for an hour 
or two. Not to attempt the clearly impossible is a marked 
sign of intelligence in dogs and men. “ Happy they,” says 
Goethe, “ who soon detedt the chasm that lies between 
their wishes and their powers.” 
It is not my intention, however, to give in this paper any 
special anecdotes illustrative of Canine Intelligence. To 
my mind the ordinary every-day intelligence of the dog is 
sufficiently convincing. When Pincher does not wait at the 
window for his master’s return because he went out with a 
hand-bag, and therefore has gone to town for the night ; 
when Sambo whines and is miserable because he sees my 
packed portmanteau in the hall, and knows that means some 
days absence ; when Toby does not attempt to follow me 
because I have on a black hat and frock-coat ; when Turk, 
anxious to be up to mischief, shams sleep, and then steals 
softly out of the room ; — when ordinary commonplace dogs 
perform actions like these, and continually modify their 
