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." "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.