DOG — GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. 451 
light, and before doing so wash themselves in some stream to get 
rid of the blood. 
In Germany I knew a large dog that was very fond of 
grapes, and at^ night used to slip his collar in order to 
satisfy his propensity ; and it was not for some time that 
the thief was suspected, owing to his returning before 
daylight and appearing innocently chained up in his 
kennel. 
A closely similar case is recorded in Mr. Duncaffs 
book on 6 Instinct 5 of a dog belonging to the Eev. Mr. 
Taylor, of Colton. The only difference is that the delin- 
quent dog slipped and afterwards readjusted a muzzle 
instead of a collar. 
In connection with sly sagacity I may also give an- 
other story contained in my correspondence, although in 
this case I am specially requested by my correspondent 
not to publish his name. I can, therefore, only say that 
he occupies a high position in the Church, and that the 
dog (a retriever) was his own property : — 
The dog was lying one evening before the kitchen fire where 
the cook had prepared a turkey for roasting. She left the 
kitchen for a few moments, when the dog immediately carried 
away the turkey and placed it in the cleft of a tree close to the 
house, but which was well concealed by the surrounding laurels. 
So rapid were his movements that he returned to his post 
before the cook had come back, and stretching himself before 
the fire, looked ‘ as innocent as a child unborn.’ Unfortunately 
for him, however, a man who was in the habit of taking him 
to shoot, saw him carrying away his prize and watched his pro- 
gress. On coming into the kitchen the man found the dog in 
his old place pretending to be asleep. Diver’s conduct was all 
along dictated b}^ a desire to conceal his theft, and if he were 
a man I should have said that he intended, in case of inquiry, 
to prove an alibi. 
Mr. W. H. Bodley writes me of a retriever dog that 
belonged to him : — 
Before he came to me he lived where another dog of similar 
size was kept, and on one occasion they fought. Having been 
chastised for this, on future occasions when they quarrelled 
they used to swim over a river of some breadth, where thej' 
