10 DECEMBER 1927, Page 18

[To the Editor of the SiskerAioii:j SIR,—Sir William Beach Thomas

wrote to the Spectator, November 26th, saying : "Does any dog understand as many as a dozen or half-a-dozen words if isolated from a particular Inflection of voice ? " I have a pedigree toy Pomeranian 134 years old, Carlo by name. He understands nearly everything that is said, and talks to us by a variety of barks. He loves motoring and asks to have a ribbon on, with name and address.

Someone once said to him : " You can't go. under that lamp or you will hurt your head," and he immediately bent his head and went backwards under it.—I am, Sir, &C.,

A LOVER OF ANIMALS.