Anecdotes of animals serving to show their intelligence or the extent of their reasoning powers, are always interesting. Here is a very curious one:
    A large dog had been accustomed to get bits of money from his master to go to a meat stall to get his lunch of fresh meat. One day when change was short, his master gave Growler a piece of white paper on which was an order for the meat. The dog after much urging, carried it to the meat stall and received his food, and so for several days, when thinking one piece of paper was as good as another, he would pick up pieces of white paper and carry them to the stall without applying to his master. It was not long before a long bill came in from the meat dealer, who had such confidence in the dog that he did not think to look at the paper, and the dog himself was very fat. No arrest was made, and the dog occupies as respectable a position in society as ever.
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