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»re extremely sedulous in feeding their 

 young, and will allow no one to ap- 

 proach them. 



A gentleman had a grey-hound, that 

 made a practice of going out unattended 

 in search of hares, and never w''juld 

 deliver the game, except to him or one 

 *pf his children. One day retiirning 

 home after an al)sence of a week, lie 

 etopped at the door of a friend who lived 

 Bear, when the dog, rushing from an ad- 

 joining field, presented herself with a 

 iiare in her month. The gentleman 

 who had come out to receive Mr. M. 

 seeing the dog, and aware of her pur- 

 pose, hastened to the dining-room, and 

 returned with a piece of meat to entice 

 the dog to give him the hare ; but hun- 

 ger could not overcome her fidelity, her 

 master had remained on horseback to 

 try how she would behave; and, rejecting 

 all the offers made by her tempter, .she 

 put up her fore-feet on the horse's flank, 

 bolding out the hare to her master. 



A gentleman, attended by an aged 

 she-dog, took up his quarters at a 

 crowded inn, where he could get no bed 

 but in the same room with another tra- 

 veller. Eoth the geiillcinen had saddle- 

 bags, and each laid his own property 

 near his bed; they were entirely ini- 

 known to each other, and being very 

 tired hardly exchanged a word, when 

 Ihey fell asleep. Early in the morning 

 Mr. K. was awoke by his companion, 

 who begged him to call olf his dog : the 

 faitiiful guard would not siifiir the 

 stranger to depart till his master ordered 

 him to stand back from the door. 



A gentleman who had njiniy years 

 rode the same horse, coming home late 

 one night, fell fast asleej) ; his horse 

 came to tiie door and neighed repeat- 

 edly ; but the family, believing it nni.st be 

 some strayed animal, did not get up. 

 Next morning early, when the servants 

 went out, they found the Iior.se quietly 

 pasturing, and their master still in pro- 

 i'ound sleep on his Ivick. 



(leese have been branded with the 

 imputation of stupidity ; but the writer 

 knows a gentleman who has a gander 

 that pmietually attends him some miles 

 w lien he goes from home, and as ho re- 

 turns meets him iKtar the same spot. 

 Aiiutlier gentleman's servant was very 

 liberal in feeding the poultry; an old 

 nan<l<!r shewed his gratitude by follow- 

 ing the phiughuian <'ven to chureli ; and 

 lie spoihrd ilic gravity of a procession 

 tit a burial, by solemnly murehing bc- 

 iti(l« Liii itkud, Allei two }uuik' 4b;«vuc« 

 3 



—Brick Water. S 1> 



he recognized the object of his attach- 

 ment. 



A pair of carriage-horses that had 

 been six years driven together, became 

 so inseparable, that, if the gentleman 

 drove himself in a garden-chair with one 

 of the comrades, the other invariably 

 attended, and kejit exact pace by the* 

 side of his associate ; one of them, whea 

 at grass, sunk in a swamp, the other 

 found a firm footing on the brink, held 

 up his friend's head above the marsh, 

 and by liis neighinjf iirought assistanca 

 just in time to save him. Th.N.R, 



TotUe Editor oftkeMmUldy Magazine. 

 SIR, 



1WAS .surprised at observing in yonr 

 last iMagazine, a passage quoted 

 from another Jonrjial, of brick-water 

 being deleterious for culinary purposes; 

 and confess, I should have been mor* 

 satisfied if it had explained what its per- 

 nicious qualities were ; tor, after all 

 the detail of Dr. Pereival's experiments 

 upon the subject, and the difiereiit tests 

 used, it indicates nothing more than th« 

 presence of an alkaline or calcareous 

 matter,— substances which may be de- 

 tected in all spring- waters, in a greater 

 or less degree. To demonstrate it, I 

 was induced to rejieat his experiment."? 

 upon brick-water, and which produced 

 all the ell'ects described by him, Ihft 

 result of which was as above, the pre- 

 sence of an alkali ; an l,J)y applying the 

 proper tests, I found the alkali to be 

 botii sulphate and muriate of lime, 

 which, in the small proportion that 

 bricks can give out, is totally inert. 

 I own, I am not sufficient chemist to 

 know what result could have been 

 drawn, or change taken place, by usifig 

 the tormentUe root as a test. I pre- 

 sume it is either a tyjucal error, or that 

 your correspondent copied it for turme- 

 ric-root, a test used to discover th« 

 presence of an alkali by its change of 

 colour. On tlie whole, I do not con- 

 ceive any ill ell'ects can arise from con- 

 structi.ig, in t'ne usual manner, wells o^ 

 reservoirs lor water of brick, being per- 

 suaded they are as free from pernicious 

 qualities, as Mr. Scott may be in recom- 

 mending Slourliriilge fire-brick as a 

 substiluie from interested motives, 

 ai;d, although one will ansMcr the pur- 

 |)ose e(piaily with the other, we are all, 

 upon simihir occasions, liablf to say, 

 " There is nothing like leatiier." 



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