CLEVER DOGS.
(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Here is an authenticated instance of practical joking fitly reciprocated :—A friend of mine has a rough-haired collie, wise and exquisitely modelled. One evening a lady of the household, with whom he was a special favourite, stooped quietly, as he lay half asleep on the rug, and placing her face close to his head, blew sharply with a slight shout in one of his ears. Tickled and startled, he jumped up and moved off, seemingly somewhat offended. In the course of the evening the lady happened to be reclining in an easy-chair, when the collie was observed by some of the inmates to rise, and making a circuit, to move stealthily towards the chair, put his fore-paws on one of the arms, and placing his nose close to the lady's ear, to give a,
sharp bark and instantly bound off am, Sir, &c., H. G. REID.
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