Science: Talkers

Two articulate dogs last week argued for attention. At the Eastern Dog Club's show in Boston one Princess Jacqueline, French bull from Bangor, Maine, answered questions logically, in a thin, high-pitched voice like a parrot's, "I will . . . I won't . . . Bangor . . . elevator." Her owner, Mrs. Mabel A. Robinson, explained proudly that Jacqueline had learned to talk "all by herself."

In Manhattan, Mrs. J. Stuart Tompkins read of Jacqueline, was piqued into bragging of Boulderwall, her Great Dane house dog. Never permitted to bark, Boulderwall's lips have...

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