Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-09
COLEY'S INTELLIGENCE.
Some Good Stories About Very
 Smart Boston Dog.
A Water Spaniel That Knows How b Smoke n Pipe and Can Play the Piano How He Shows His Love for
 His Mistress.

 that the reason that the dog does not talk is because it does not need to.
 It is well known that spaniels are very intelligent and can be taught tricks more easily than almost any other dog. Very soon after Coley came to reside in our fam lily the master of the house began in his leisure hours to teach him tricks. The first accomplishment acquired was the art of rolling over. This was very disagreeable to the puppy's young dignity, and though he learned it before long, he always does it uu- der protest, barking and getting through it as quickly as possible so as to have it over with.
 Coley will beg for what he wants, wheth- CT it be drink of water, something to eat, or to go out with any member of the family whom he sees preparing for the street. If one of the family says, in an ordinary tone: II am going down town," up will go the big ears, and Coley is all alive with interest and the hope that he will be allowed to go too. It is amusing when hls mistress says to him:
 "Coley, think mamma is going out. Go and ask her if you can go with her"
 Of he goes to mammals room, plants him. self before her, and begs so hard that there is no resisting him. Indeed, there is a gen which is hard enough to resist, especially by the female portions of the family.
 One of the grown-up sons of the house has taught Coley to wait upon him to some extent. "Coley," he says, "bring me my hat and cane. l am going down town" The alacrity with which he obeys is not above a suspicion of self-interestedness, since he is generally rewarded by the dearly-prized permission to go down town also; and the same may be said of the fidelity with which he escorts his mistress t> ,,1-1N enough to obtain bone. It is Imaginable enough to see the air with which he con- veys his treasure homeward, his head erect, his tail stiffened, and his whole atti- tude denoting most reprehensiblY human desire to make every other dog in the neighborhood enviouS.
 Sometimes his own meat is wrapped up for him and he carries it home and waits at the house door for his mistress, who is to have it cooked for him. But one day, not long ago, he ran on ahead with his dinner, and as his mistress stopped by the way he got tired of waiting, and when she arrived, out he ran to meet her with the empty paper, having disposed of the meat
 One of tho first tricks Coley learned was to stand up in the corner, but recently he has been taught to stand with corn-cob pipe in his mouth If his mistress says, ''Does Coley want to smoke his pipe?" away he goes to the corner, his own par ticular one, stands up, takes the pipe ill his mouth, and when small yellow cap is placed on one sido of his head certain waggish look comes into his intelligent eyes which is remarkably funny. Some times he has a white handkerchief tied under his chin and then he looks like q yer itable old negro woman smoking her pipe. He is so solemn with it all, while the spectators are convulsed with laughter, that it makes it doubly amusing. Coley is very jealous of the cat, and one has only to say, Will Kitty stand in tho cornerl' and Master Coley slips into the corner and stands up without further ceremony.
 Coley is a very affectionate dog and dear ly loves his mistress, who has fed him, taken care of him In his illness and pun ished him when he needed correction. She has only to say to him: "Does Coley love his mistressm and up goes his little hairy arms about her neck-or, to speak more ex- actly, their stiffness obnges him to be con tent with laying them over her shoulders while there arc abundant kisses at her service if she will consent to receive them.
 But Coley's most brilliant accomplish ment is playing the piano. Living in the country his mistress has felt at liberty to have him practice to an extent she is too humane to have allowed had her lot and that of the dog been cast in town, where there were neighhors to be troubled. He early developed a marked fondness for music, hurrying to the muslc-room from any part of the house whenever ho heard any one playing or singing, and so the head of the family conceived the notion of surprising Colcy's mistress on her re- turn from some weeks absence from home, by teaching the spaniel to play the piano himself When she arrived the dog was n nor1fy 1 AnlTr tNt,k lI. wild transports had abated and his teacher sad: "Now, Coley, play the piano" he mounted the stool at once, and brought both his paws down upon the keys with much vlgor, if not wholly classic express sion
 Nowadays if one wishes him to play it is only necessary to say to him.
 "Coley, what does Josef Hofmann dol"
 He has become so fond of performing, or of being praised for performing, which may not be exactly the same thing, that he some times insists in busting his mistress from the piano stool and taking her place
 He jumps almost as well as the trained dogs of the saw-dust ring, while such con- monplaces as speaking" and the like come as matter of course. Perhaps the most striking proof of his cleverness is the man ner in which he plays the chambermaid by getting and making hls own bed. He sleeps in the hal just outside his mistress door, on rug, which lies during the day in certain place in her room. When he goes upstairs at bedtime he is told: "Bring your bed- Coley." Hereupon he goes to the rug, takes it in his mouth and carries it to the proper place, and goes to bed. But when he first began to carry his bed he found that it was so large that he could not raise it high enough to prevent stumbling over it; 80 the dog conceived the idea of folding it over, thus making it smaller, and he now carries it without difficulty.
 At present Coley is learning to get papa's slippers for him out of the closet in the li- brary, where they stand ready for use But when papa comes from business, he will say: "Now, does Coley want to get my slip persf" and away marches the doggy to the closet, the door of which has been left open for him, brings out the slippers and carries them one at time to papa, carries back the shoes and drops them on the closet floor, shuts the door and walks oil satisfied that he has done well.
 When there is company in the drawing room Coley is there with his big yellow bow tied into bis collar, for yellow is Coley's color, and as the guests arrive he eXDectS tO he preatad aa yyell oa tho