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or * no ” or pawing with his foot to indicate

numbers or letters, which when joined together
formed the answer required.

These circumstances could not but excite the

astonishment of the spectators, who were attracted

ill great numbers by the celebrity of this animal.

First. Ho continued to give pertinent and
proper answers, even when his master retired

from the exhibition-room, or desired all those to

retire who were making signs to the dog to

indicate the answer. Second. His answers, when
iic was blindfolded to prevent him from observing',

were equally proper. Third. He generally

advanced the most singular paradoxes; at first

no person in company agreed with him in opinion,
yetj after a variety of objections, answers^ and

replies, the dog was always in the end allowed

to be ritrht.
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To prove that the epithet bestowed upon the

learned animal Was not altogether misapplied,
we shall here relate a conversation which took

place between the spaniel and two or three

learned persons in company. A sailor first asked
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