A SMART DOG.
[To THE EDITOR OR TRH “EIRECTATOR.“] Sut,—For a good many years I have been a constant reader of your valued journal. I have enjoyed your frequent anecdotes of the intelligence and fidelity of our "humble friends." In my morning paper to-day—the Chicago Inter.Ocean—I find the following story of a very bright dog, as quoted from a New York paper :— "A dog loving family on Staten Island [New York] has a remark- ably intelligent pet. Discussing his wit one day, it was proposed to send him upstairs for his mistress's wrap. Bat first one of the ladies went upstairs, ]aid the wrap on the floor, and sat down on it with her sewing. The dog was sent, and quickly found the wrap. Vainly he tagged at it, first on one aide and then on the other. Discouraged, but not dismayed, he paused for a moment, when, suddenly making a dive, he seized the sewing in his teeth, and ran toward the fire. His opponent, now off her guard, ran after him to rescue her work. This was enough ; the dog dropped the sewing, can for the wrap, and bore it in triumph to his mistress."—Epoch.
"Smart," as here used, you will set down as an Americanism ; but did this clever animal exhibit instinct simply, or was it imagination and a rapid and rational judgment P —I am, Sir, &c., • Chicago, ill., U.S.A., Jane 6th. Lamm. Moss.
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