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The Speech of Monkeys
·
R. L. Garner
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CHAPTER
XXVI.
THE
SPEECH
AND
REASON
OF
DOMESTIC
ANIMALS.
Dash
and
the
Baby--Two
Collies
talk--Eunice
understands
her
Mistress--Two
Dogs
and
the
Phonograph--A
Canine
Family--Cats
and
Dogs--Insects--Signs
and
Sounds.
[Sidenote:
THE
SPEECH
OF
DOMESTIC
ANIMALS]
To
those
who
are
familiar
with
rural
life,
there
can
be
nothing
strange
in
hearing
it
said
that
all
animals
can
talk
among
their
kind.
Among
the
daily
incidents
of
farm
life,
there
occur
so
many
proofs
of
this
as
to
place
the
question
beyond
debate.
The
cattle
have
means
of
conveying
ideas
to
other
cattle,
and
sheep
and
hogs
understand
other
sheep
and
hogs,
and
the
means
employed
are
sounds.
These
sounds
are
used
in
the
same
way
that
man
uses
them
to
convey
his
thoughts,
and
since
they
discharge
all
the
functions
of
speech,
in
what
respect
are
they
not
speech?
The
types
of
speech
differ
in
different
genera,
as
their
physical
types
do,
but
they
are
not
any
the
less
speech
on
that
account.
Among
the
domestic
animals,
I
think
the
dog
has,
perhaps,
the
highest
type
of
speech;
and
this
is
doubtless,
in
some
measure,
due
to
his
intimate
relations
with
man,
from
whom
he
has
learned
and
added
a
little
to
his
mental
store,
and
this
must
find
an
outlet
through
speech.
That
dogs
think
and
reason
is
not
to
be
doubted
by
the
most
stupid
observer,
and
they
often
make
known
their
thoughts
so
that
even
man
can
interpret
them
with
certainty;
but
the
speech
by
which
they
express
those
thoughts
is
of
course
rudimentary.
Dogs
often
discharge
certain
duties
with
such
promptness
that
bigots
declare
that
it
is
mechanical
and
done
without
motive,
but
there
are
many
thousands
of
cases
where
the
dog
has
assumed
and
performed
duties
of
others,
entirely
outside
of
his
own
sphere,
which
nothing
but
reason
could
have
prompted.
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