STORY OF A shepherd's DOG. 193 



LETTER XXIV. 



FROM CAROLINE TO EMILY. 



MY DEAR EMILY, 



That I may make some return for the 

 amusement your canine anecdotes have afforded me^ I 

 will relate the feats of a simple dog or twO;, of low de- 

 gree, when compared with your heroic avenger of his 

 master's wrongs. 



A gentleman, with whom my aunt was formerly 

 acquainted, occupied a farm in a remote district of 

 Scotland, and had a dog of the genuine colly, or 

 shepherd's breed, named Gashkan, which signifies 

 a hero, or 7ni/ hero : this dog attached himself to 

 one of the servants employed in the farm, who, 

 being married, was boarded out of the house ; 

 but times growing hard, and his master indulgent, 

 William and Gashkan often got a good dinner in 

 the farm-house kitchen ; the former by invitation, 

 the latter by permission. Thus, dinner being 

 ready became a matter of consequence to Gash- 

 kan ; and such was his observation, that he soon 







