"GOOD Laddie! Thank you, ever so much! Nobody but a very, VERY wonderful collie named Lad could have had the perfect taste to pick out such a parasol.

And now we're going to have a whole handful of animal crackers, for reward." The crooningly sweet voice, the petting, the gift of animal crackers of which he was childishly fond--all these delighted Lad beyond measure.
And they confirmed him in the belief that he had done something most laudable.
What he had done was to pick up a stray object, away from home, and bring it to the Mistress.

He knew that.

And that was all he knew.

But, having won high praise for the deed, he resolved then and there to repeat it.
Which proves that old dogs can be taught new tricks.