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various rates of speed, and always to swim at the proper angle, 
is most surprising.’ 
As a confirmatory case, I may also quote an extract 
from a letter sent me by Mr. Percival Fothergill. Writing 
of a retriever which he has, he says : — 
I have seen her spring overboard from our gangway 16 feet 
from the water-line. The tides ran more than 5 knots, and she 
invariably came down to a little wharf abreast the ship, and 
gazed intently for small pieces of stick or straw, and having 
thus ascertained the drift of the tide (did as you mention of 
another dog), ran up tide and swam off. The sentry on the 
forecastle always kept a look-out for the dog, and threw over 
a line with a bowling knot, and she was hauled on board. 
But one day she was observed to wait an unusual time on 
the wharf ; no wood or straw gave her the required information. 
After waiting some time, she lay down on the planks, and 
dropped one paw into the water, and found by the feel which 
way the tide ran, got up, and ran up stream as usual. 
Mr. Greorge Cook writes me that he recently had a 
pointer, which one morning, when the grass was covered 
with frost, dragged a mat out of his kennel, from wdtich 
he had got loose, to the lawn beneath the house windows, 
where he was found lying upon the mat, which thus served 
to protect him from the frost. The distance over which he 
had dragged the mat for this purpose was about 100 yards. 
Mr. Cook adds: 6 I have since frequently seen him bring this 
mat out of his kennel and lay it in the sunshine, shifting 
it if a shadow came upon the place where he had laid it.’ 
The following is sent me by the Kev. F. J. Penky. 
He gives me the name of his friend the canon, but does 
not give me express permission to publish it. In quoting 
his account, therefore, I leave this name blank. He 
says : — 
The following is an instance of sagacity — indeed, amount* 
ing to reason — in a dog, a French poodle that beh rjged to 
Colonel Pearson (not the lately beleaguered colonel at Ekowe, 
but a Colonel Pearson living some years ago at Lichfield). 
The circumstance happened to a friend of mine, Canon , 
rector of . I have the story from his own lips, but I have 
no permission for his name to be used in any publication, should 
