'Now, Lyda,' said her master, 'I want to see if you understand division.
Suppose you had ten bits of sugar, and you met ten Prussian dogs, how many lumps would you, a French dog, give to each of the Prussians ?' Lyda very decidedly replied to this with a cipher.

'But, suppose you divided your sugar with me, how many lumps would you give me ?' Lyda took up the figure five and politely presented it to her master." "Wasn't she smart?
Sanch can't do that," exclaimed Ben, forced to own that the French doggie beat his cherished pet.
"He is not too old to learn.

Shall I go on ?" asked Miss Celia, seeing that the boys liked it, though Betty was absorbed with the doll, and Bab deep in a puzzle.
"Oh, yes! What else did they do ?" "They played a game of dominoes together, sitting in chairs opposite each other, and touched the dominoes that were wanted; but the man placed them and kept telling how the game went.

Lyda was beaten, and hid under the sofa, evidently feeling very badly about it.

Blanche was then surrounded with playing-cards, while her master held another pack and told us to choose a card; then he asked her what one had been chosen, and she always took up the right one in her teeth.