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Show end of the bridge, who received him very cordially. The truth then for the first time dawned) on him, that the little animal belonged to the man who cleaned the boots, and was trained by him to perform these mischievous deeds for the purpose of bringing in custom. So amused was the gentleman by the little creature's crea-ture's intelligence, that he quite forgave for-gave him for former injuries. Ex. A TEAIND DOS-. " u ' ; ... Ey.careful training, wonderful intelligence in-telligence may be developed in dogs, as the following anecdote will prove: A fashionably dressed English gentleman was one day crossing one of the bridges over the Seine," at Paris, when he felt something knock against his legs, and looking down, he found that a small poodle dog had rubbed against him, and covered cover-ed his boptswith mud. lie was, of course, much annoyed, and execrated execrat-ed the little brute pretty freely; but when he got to the other side, of the bridge, he had the boofs cleaned at a stand for the purpose, and thought no more about the matter. Some days after this occurrence, however, he had occasion again to cross the bridge, and the same little accident occured. Thinking this somewhat odd, he resolved to watch where the little dog went to; and leaning against the side of the bridge, he followed with his eye the movements move-ments of his dirty little friend. He saw him rub against the feet of one gentleman after another, repeatedly rushing down to the bank of the river to roll himself in the mud, when he returned to the bridge, to transfer to the bcots of the passers-by, passers-by, as befoje. Having watched his movements for some time, the gentleman gent-leman noticed that on one occasion, instead of running down to the river, he went off to the proprietor of the stand for cleaning boots, at the other ' . ! |