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when he left the carriage and waited on the platform for the 
return train to Harlech. If Hero did not make use of 4 abstract 
reasoning’ we may as well give up the use of the term. 
Miss M. C. Young writes to me : — 
You may perhaps think the following worthy of notice, as 
Illustrating the comparative failure of instinct in an animal 
which has begun to reason. A friend of mine has a mongrel 
fox-terrier of remarkable intelligence, though undeveloped by 
any training. This dog has always shown a great fondness for 
accompanying any of the family on a railway journey, often 
having to be taken out of the train by force. One morning in 
the summer of 1877 the groom came, in great distress, to say 
that Spot had followed him to the station, and jumped into the 
train after a visitor’s maid who was going to see her friends, 
and he (the groom) felt sure the dog would be stolen. The 
railway is a short single line, with three trains down and up 
each day, and my friend is well known to all the officials, so she 
sent to meet the next train, when the guard said the dog 
(apparently finding no friend in the train) had jumped out at 
a little roadside station about five miles distant. Most dogs 
would have found their way home easily, though the place 
itself was strange, but Spot did not appear till late in the 
evening, after ten hours’ absence, and dead tired. On inquiry 
we found that the guard had seen nothing of her at 9 a.m., at 
12 a.m., at 1 p.m., nor at 4 p.m. ; but when he reached the little 
station on his return at 5.30, ‘ she was walking up and down 
the platform like a Christian,’ jumped into his box, and jumped 
out again of her own accord at the right station for her home. 
She had evidently spent the interval in trying to find her way 
home on foot, and not succeeding, had resolved on returning 
the way she came. 
Lastly, for the following very remarkable case I am 
indebted to my friend Mrs. A. S. H. Richardson : — 
The Rev. Mr. Townsend, incumbent of Lucan, was formerly 
an engineer on the Dundalk line of railway. He had a very 
intelligent Scotch retriever dog, wdiich used to have a habit of 
jumping into any carriage in which Mr. Townsend travelled; 
but this had been discontinued for a year when the following 
incident happened. Mr. Townsend and the dog were on the 
platform at Dundalk station ; Mr. Townsend went to get a 
ticket for a lady, and during his absence the dog jumped into 
a carriage, and when the train started, was carried down to 
