CANINE AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1500, 14 August 1880, Page 27

CANINE AND HUMAN INTELLIGENCE.

Mr Ramschneider and his friend August Fifemacher, were out walking, and Mr Kamaehneider was boasting of the intelligence of his dog. " See here," he said ; "I place my hat here, in this fence corner ; I conceal it under the bush and dried leaves. We will now walk on. We pass down the lane, we turn this corner, we stroll by the woods, I send Bismarck back for my hat. See, my friend? he comprehends me; he flies through the woods, he speeds down the lane, he disappears around the corner, presently he will be back beforel have time to catch cold in my head." It was true, as Mr Ernst Ramsohneider had said. The intelligent dog, readily understanding what was wanted, aped down the lane and flew around the corner to get the hat. But he did not get ib all the same. For just "as he flew around the corner, a wary, though not an affluent tramp, who had watched the circus from afar, was in the act of appropriating Mr Ramachneider's new hat unto himself, and when the dog got up in a short range he fired a day- cold clod, as hard as a door knob, at that faithful animal, with a Jorce that knocked a howl out of him as long aa a clothes line, and sent him wailing and weeping back to hia astonished master. And when Mr Ramsohneider and his friend hastened to investigate, they found under the brußh an old hat, that had lived in more ash heaps than you could count in a week, and so greasy and forbidding in its general appearance that Mr Ramsohneider wouldn't touoh it with his cane. Far away, beneath the distant fields, they saw the sunlight shining on Mr RamSchneider's $5 hat, and the tramp of the dusty highway was jogging along under it. But Mr Ramschneider walked home bare as to his head, which is of the bald baldy, and he hasn't got out of bed yet with the cold he caught. Hfec fabula docet that 1 you when you stake the instinct of the cam's against the cheek of a tramp, you can just bet multum pecunifß the canis will be left.— Burlington Hawkeye.