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loves to accompany its master at table, and being extreme- 

 ly jealous, it never fails to drive away, if pofsible, all cats 

 and dogs, or other animals, that seem to (hare in its mas- 

 ter's affection, especially when it is petitioning for food j 

 and being fierce and couragious, it seldom fails to succeed. 

 It is entertaining to see with what art it evades the bite of 

 a dog, by soaring above his reach, and then darting down 

 suddenly upon him while he is off his guard. It always 

 aims his strokes at the eyes, which it attacks both with its 

 bill and its talons with great fury j and when it. has. once 

 obtained a victory, it pursues its enemy with the most sur- 

 prising obstinacy, and would never cease tormenting it 

 till it died, if not prevented. 



In ihort, so strong Is the attachment this bird Ihows to 

 man, that, in this respect, it seems to hold the same rank 

 as the dog among quadrupeds, and, la some instances, it 

 even seems to approach near to that animal in point of 

 docility. It is afserted that the agamee can be taught to 

 guard a flock of fheep in the same manner as the dog. 

 Since, then, these birds love domesticity so much, where- 

 fore fliould we not endeavour to rear them in abundance, 

 employ them in such uses as they are capable of being put 

 to, and endeavour slIU farther to improve their natural in-, 

 stincts, and render them more extensively serviceable to. 

 man ? 



ANECDOTES OF ADRIAN BROOR, A CELEBRATED FLEMISH 



PAINTER. 



1 BEG leave to offer the following anecdotes of Broor, a 

 noted Flemilh painter, as another instance of the strange 

 eccentricities of some men of genius. 



Adrian Broor, or Brawer, or Brauer, was born at Qu- 

 denarde in the year i6o3, and died 1640. 



