The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-03-09
From the New York Times.

Dogs Educatedw Such was the IN
scription on neatly painted tin, with
notice affixed, that business could be at
tended to "only between the hours of II
and 2 O'clock We remember very dis
tinctly the signs on the Pont Neut-"On
coupe les chiens ct les chat, ct on via en-
wondering what new phase
of the profession could be found, we
mounted three flights of stairs. delber-
atcly knocked at 4 door, expecting to be
answered by a clamorous barking, but
we were mistaken, for nothing canine
was audible. Presently the door opened
and a very pleasant person, the master OF
the premises, on our expressing the de-
sire for full information, politely offered
us chair, and gave Us some interesting
details of his method of instruction.
you do not mean to say that You
make Il regular profession of it, do you ?''
''Oh. yes, ertainly-though there amt
more than three in the whole country as
follows it strictly. Most of them COM
bines exhibitions with their animals, OF
has a line OF fancy 'gs in connection
with the business. Sometimes | have a
few nice dogs to sell. sent to me by my
English connections, but I'm rather suspi-
cious about them mostly. I'm afraid they
have been stolen in the old country.
generally can tell a stolen dog"
"And, pray, how ~
''Why some of the signs is easy. A
real Isle Of Skye is rare dog in America
If he's good he don't leave home; hes
worth more there than here. It's the
a., Al, l. ;,.l, n
The best place for 4 Thoroughbred
English dog, especially fancy dog, is al
home. a dog that is stolen is mostly
taken from rich people, who don't watch
him enough. Then. when you have GOT
him, his ways indicate former good ant
kind handling. He won't sit down on the
bare floor when there is a strip of carpet
and, what is strange, and believe have
particularly observed it, when he barks
at Il beggar it amt as much on account
of his rags. but because the dog has beer
accustomed to people who We're cleanly
in their habits; not to put too fine a point
to it, who We're sweet scented. and he
can't stand bad smells. Except you buy
n dog, or a puppy, from very particu
lar friend, | am safe in saying in London
and Just as likely in New York, nine
tenths of the full-grown dogs sold are
stolen.'
You train dogs, then 90
Il prepare the subjects for performance
Mostly ! takes q puppy from his bird
and brings him up; sometimes a dog i,
sent to me to educate But | don't dc
anything in monkeys. They are very
troublesome: kind of uncertain-like You
think. after 50 much pains, you have got
one that is well up in his part, regularly
posted, and likely to do you credit bu
one fine morning you find he has bolted
his work, clean forgotten it, and YOU have
to begin over again. The public is en-
tiiely mistaken about him. Generally
a good licking at the start, and then tC
keep up u lively hiding all the time
Most especially this will hold good Will
the smaller kind though | have hear,
tell that the bigge" the monkey the moro
like Il man lie is. and the more sensible
Very few people know more abou
monkey habits than do"
Where did you learn the business"
I'm England. sir, most forty years ago
As 4 boy I travelled with Il booth, sir
We had a kangaroo, 4 wild boar, and ;
trained dog. | rose in the business, ant
me and that same dog was professional
for over three wears. | was once one o
the underkcepers OF the monkey lodge q
the Geological Gardens. might hay,
been there now but for Il" accident"
''l1ow was that?'
"Whv, You see. sir, we had a very large
company of monkeys, and the whole o
them, except the very rare and savage
ones, was divided into lots Lords ant
commons we used to call them, or sena
tors and representatives. The monkey
kind OF understood the distinction, an,
stood on their privileges, each part,
being divided from the other by wir
lattice They conld, if they wanted to
squeeze their hands and feet through, bu
Just rs sure As any did, Just as certain
would some monkey on the other sid,
bite them; So save making faces at ont
another and chatting of themselves, the,
We're rs orderly Il set of politicians as yol
keeper (know'd nothing about monkeys
sir,) handed me n pretty nice specimen
from middle Africa. Says he, ''Siz
that monkey and put him in his own de
partmcnt.' Now, the smaller monkey
we called number two, and the large
ones number ones SO. seeing he wa
understood, l popped him in the twos
which was the member of parliament side
He seemed to take TO ii right off and mad
friends quite naturally. His chums kin,
of trooped all around him, and he KEEP
chattering away, and they listening lik
everything. and all was y going on a
serene as a quarter session. That YER,
night you would have thought the YER
devil had broken loose Such shrek
ing and crashing and tearing | neve
did hear. Hang me if the little monkey
hadn't made q sortie, broken bounds int
the big monkeys house. and the awfulles
fight was going on you ever see. Wha
the strangest thing was, that the It'll
monkeys were whipping the big ones lilS'
smoke. Evidently a-leading Of them wa
the new conner. Like good general h
wasn't doing much of the fighting, bu
was all over the edge at the same time,
Jerking of himself, a-lashing of his tail
a-grinding of his tusks, and chatterine
and gibbering rs | never saw a monkc,
gibber before. BY the time we had in
tertered, one fine Senegal monkey ha,
been most chawcd up, and several of the
best specimens had been knocked out o
time. OF course, it was all put on m,
shoulders, because | wasn't up to assert
ing monkeys. Butt ask You, sir. how
was [ to know? Why didn't the keepe
tell me he was a talking monkey, which
is the most quarrelsome of all the species
If he had only mentioned that common
sense would have told me to have givel
him a place to himself9"
"You wouldn't mind showing US you
dogs, would you?"
"Oh no, by no means. They are on
of school now-otherwisc, rs there ar,
some very young scholars among them
couldn't do it."
Hereupon our show-dog friend opened
tho door 11nOn tho 1anlipo WIN Of lad an,