[Baptis Weekly]
    A sheperd once, to prove the quickness of his dog, who was lying before the fire in the house where we talking, said to me in the middle of a sentence concerning something else, “I am thinking, sir, the cow is in the potatoes.” Through he purposely laid no stress on these words and said them in a quiet, unconcerned tone of voice, the dog, who appeared to be asleep, immediately jumped up and leaping through an open window, scrambled up the turf roof of the house, from which he could see the potato field. He then [not seeing the cow there] ran and looked into the farm yard, where she was, and, finding that all was right, came back to the house. After a short time the shepherd said the same words again and the dog repeated the outlook, but on the false alarm being a third time given the dog got up and , wagging his tail, looked his master in the face with so comical an expression of interrogation that he could not help laughing at him.On which, with a slight growl, he laid himself down in his warm corner with an offended air, as if determined not to be made a fool of again.
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