These dogs behaved at dinner just like other dogs; but when I gave Blanche a bit of cheese and asked if she knew the word for it, her master said she could spell it.

So a table was arranged with a lamp on it, and round the table were laid the letters of the alphabet painted on cards.

Blanche sat in the middle, waiting till her master told her to spell cheese, which she at once did in French, F R O M A G E.Then she translated a word for us very cleverly.

Some one wrote pferd, the German for horse, on a slate.

Blanche looked at it and pretended to read it, putting by the slate with her paw when she had done.