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108 UNOPENED PARCELS. "Well, Honor," replied he, "don't you see there was first the road along which the dog had traced his master; then the two roads at which he snuffed where his master had not been. Take these three from the four and you perceive there was only one road left, which the master could have gone. Because, take three from four and but one remains. You do perceive that, don't you ?" "Yes, papa." But the question is whether the dog perceived it--whether he calculated as you and I have done who have learnt or are learning our subtraction table. Coleridge says not. He says, either the story must have been untrue, or a breeze brought the master's track down the fourth road to the dog's nose without giving him the trouble of stooping to snuff-anything, in short, rather than believe the almost miraculous fact that even the most sagacious of all animals could have calculated arithmetically-take three from four and one remains." What do you think, papa ?" was my next idea.