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 particular friend, coming down the street with a bone in his mouth. He trotted into the yard; and after snuffing about for a moment, he seemed to make up his mind that Frisky was not at home, which was the case.

He laid his bone down on the lawn and looked longingly at it; but it was not for him, for after a few minutes he picked it up, and went and buried it in the garden. He then brought a stick from the woodshed and laid it on the lawn, and trotted off in the direction of home. "That is very queer," I said. "I will keep watch and see what happens."

After an hour or two Master Frisky came home covered with mud and very tired. He was trotting along, looking rather dejected, when he saw the stick. He went up and smelled of it, and gave a short, delighted bark, and then trotted with head up, to the corner of the garden, dug up the bone that Ned had buried there, and in less time than it takes to tell was lying by my side gnawing it. "Well, if that doesn't beat all," I said. The stick was a letter that Ned had left for Frisky; and if it had said upon it, "Dear Frisky, I have left a bone for you; it is buried in the north-west corner of the garden," the meaning would not have been plainer.

Now I will tell you some of the most common signs and signals in the language of the dogs.

For these signs they depend on their ears, eyes, mouth, paws, and tail; also barks, growls,