Show SAYS ANIMALS DO REMEMBER why old idea Is wrong Is proved by incidents related by english writer I 1 have read an article in which a trapper denies that animals have a real memory says a writer in the lon iov dop times lie he admitted that most of 0 them knew enough to avoid a trap after an experience or two it but contended that this was merely a manifestation of the self preserve tion instinct the same man cited at ah instance not at all unfamiliar of a dogs refusing to hunt with a man who had bad kicked him lie he said that flint this too was only the instinct of all living creatures to avoid injury animals do have memory at least some of them do the trappers theory would not explain those many evl evi dences of recollection wherein self preservation plays no part I 1 once carried a fox fos terrier into the house after he had been well nigh killed by an automobile his master had just moved into the apartment house and I 1 had never seen the dog before that day we moved away two lays days later and I 1 did not see the terrier for over four months then one day I 1 passed the house or was about to do so when out came that dog wagging ills his stubby tall tail lie ile jumped all over met me in joyful recognition and memory at an amusing story significant on t this his subject Is told by my father As 1 s i a boy lie he lived on a farni farm and was always a close student of animal nature arlei mare he usually drove was ol 01 old and fat and would never go faster than a walk unless urged there were two roads to town one brandling branching oft off from the other and a little shorter it iad been old mauds custom to take this road of her own volition until on one occasion a vicious dog barked at her and snapped at her ae legs s after hat bat the driver had to be on I 1 his its guards guard maud would speed up when about 00 50 yards from tile the turnoff turn off oft and try to ret get by it before she could be restrained this showed not only memory but a sense for planning |