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He came and went noiselessly, treading as though he feared his footsteps would awaken some one, and David saw that he was afraid of the mice. One of them ran up his sleeve as they were eating supper, and he flung it from him with a strange, quick breath, his eyes blazing. "Muche Munito!" he shuddered.
He is something more than a mountebank of the booths, trained to walk the tight rope and stand on his head. He is an adept at performing tricks, but it is his alertness of brain that places him apart from other animals. There is the example of the famous Munito, who in 1818 perplexed the Parisians by his cleverness with playing cards and his intricate arithmetical calculations.
When it arrived before the letter which it should choose to form the word required, it stopped; but if it stopped it was because it heard the noise imperceptible to all others of a toothpick that the American snapped in his pocket. That noise was the signal for Munito to take the letter and arrange it in suitable order." "And that was all the secret?" cried Dick Sand.
"She went down into a world she didn't know. Lang trapped her. And Josephine, to save her, to save the baby, to save her father did as Munito the White Star did to save the Cree god. You know. You understand. Lang followed to demand Josephine as the price of her mother. M'sieur, YOU MUST KILL HIM! GO!"
If I may believe what has been told me about it, Munito would not have been able to distinguish the letters which served to compose the words. But its master, a clever American, having remarked what fine hearing Munito had, applied himself to cultivating that sense, and to draw from it some very curious effects." "How did he set to work, Mrs.
Weldon?" asked Dick Sand, whom the history interested almost as much as little Jack. "In this way, my friend." When Munito was 'to appear' before the public, letters similar to these were displayed on a table. On that table the poodle walked about, waiting till a word was proposed, whether in a loud voice or in a low voice. Only, one essential condition was that its master should know the word."
"But, sir," said the novice, "is it not very astonishing that a dog should know the letters of the alphabet?" "No!" cried little Jack. "Mama has often told me the story of a dog which knew how to read and write, and even play dominoes, like a real schoolmaster!" "My dear child," replied Mrs. Weldon, smiling, "that dog, whose name was Munito, was not a savant, as you suppose.
"That was the whole secret," replied Mrs. Weldon. "It is very simple, like all that is done in the matter of prestidigitation. In case of the American's absence, Munito would be no longer Munito. I am, then, astonished, his master not being there if, indeed, the traveler, Samuel Vernon, has ever been its master that Dingo could have recognized those two letters."
"And, in the absence of its master " said the novice. "The dog could have done nothing," replied Mrs. Weldon, "and here is the reason. The letters spread out on the table, Munito walked about through this alphabet.
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