lob A CHILD FED BY A DOG. 



his endeavours to disentangle himself from the rocks 

 and briers, he fell asleep, and by that means was over- 

 looked by his parents, who, as soon as they missed 

 him, made diligent search for him wherever they 

 thought there was a probability of finding him ; but all 

 their efforts were fruitless. They had nearly given up 

 the hope of recovering their lost little one, and were 

 on the point of yielding to the terrible necessity of 

 losing him for ever without knowing his fate, when 

 the dog belonging to the cottage was observed to go 

 out with his food in his mouth ; and this unusual act 

 he repeated so often as to raise a suspicion that he had 

 some extraordinary motive for doing so. Curiosity, 

 and a faint hope that he had discovered what they had 

 so ineffectually sought, determined them to follow him; 

 when, to their inexpressible joy, by tracing his steps, 

 they were led to their child ; and, by the time they 

 had got up to him, the dog was found giving the food 

 to the boy, whom he had sustained in this manner for 

 several days.* The attachment, the fidelity, and the 

 sagacity of this animal, are beyond all praise. 



The courage of dogs is sometimes surprising. Cap- 

 tain Beaufort, of his Majesty's ship Blisson, relates an 

 extraordinary instance of that quality in a dog which 



* This circumstance happened in Ireland. A story very 

 similar is related in The Family Tour, which occurred to a 

 shepherd in Scotland. 



