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ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE. 
for obtaining them. Nevertheless, one day while he was 
amusing himself with another dog in the park, my brother, 
in order to persuade him to follow, struck him with a 
glove. The terrier looked up at his face with an astonished 
and indignant gaze, deliberately turned round, and trotted 
home. Next day he went out with my brother as before, 
but after he had gone a short distance he looked up at his 
face significantly, and again trotted home with a dignified 
air. After thus making bis protest in the strongest way 
he could, the dog ever afterwards refused to accompany 
him. 
This terrier habitually exhibited a strong repugnance 
to corporal punishment, even when inflicted upon others. 
Thus, whenever or wherever he saw a man striking a dog, 
whether in the house or outside, near at hand or at a dis- 
tance, he used to rush in to interfere, snarling and snap- 
ping in a most threatening w T ay. Again, when driving 
with me in a dog-cart, he always used to hold the sleeve of 
my coat every time I touched the horse with the whip. 
As bearing upon this sensitiveness of feeling produced in 
dogs by habitually kind treatment, I shall here give an 
extract from the letter of one of my correspondents (Mrs. 
E. Picton). It relates to a Skye terrier which had a strong 
aversion to being washed : — 
In process of time this aversion increased so much that all 
the servants I had refused to perform the ablutions, being in 
terror of doing so from the ferocity the animal evinced on 
such occasions. I myself did not choose to undertake the office, 
for though the animal was passionately attached to me, such was 
his horror of the operation, that even I was not safe. Threats, 
beating, and starving were all of no avail ; he still persisted in 
his obstinacy. At length I hit upon a new device. Leaving 
him perfectly free, and not curtailing his liberty in any way, I 
let him know, by taking no notice of him, that he had offended 
me. He was usually the companion of my walks, but now" I 
refused to let him accompany me. When I returned home I 
took no notice of his demonstrative welcome, and when he came 
looking up at me for caresses wheu I was engaged either in 
reading or needlework, I deliberately turned my head aside. 
This state of things continued for about a week or ten days, 
and the poor animal looked wretched and forlorn. There was 
