But, take notice, there are only two letters in question here, two particular letters, and not a word chosen by chance.

After all, that dog which rang at the door of a convent to take possession of the plate intended for the poor passers-by, that other which commissioned at the same time with one of its kind, to turn the spit for two days each, and which refused to fill that office when its turn had not come, those two dogs, I say, advanced farther than Dingo into that domain of intelligence reserved for man.

Besides, we are in the presence of an inscrutable fact.

Of all the letters of that alphabet, Dingo has only chosen these two: S and V.The others it does not even seem to know.

Therefore we must conclude that, for a reason which escapes us, its attention has been especially drawn to those two letters." "Ah! Captain Hull," replied the young novice, "if Dingo could speak! Perhaps he would tell us what those two letters signify, and why it has kept a tooth ready for our head cook." "And what a tooth!" replied Captain Hull, as Dingo, opening its mouth, showed its formidable fangs.
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