606 MODERN FARRIER. 



London ; but who, havintr no other means of keep- 

 ing the animal except in close confinement, sent 

 him to a friend who was living in Scotland. The 

 dog, who had been originally disembarked at 

 Thames-street, was again re- em barked at the same 

 place on board a Berwick smack ; by which means, 

 during his stay in London, he had never travelled 

 half a mile from the spot he first landed at. Du- 

 ring the short time he remained, he had, however, 

 contracted a friendship for his master, and when he 

 arrived in Scotland, his regret at the separation in- 

 duced him to take tiie first opportunity of escaping ; 

 and, though he certainly had never before travelled 

 one yard of the road, yet he found his way back in 



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a very short time to his former residence on Fish- 

 street- hill ; but in so exhausted a state that he had 

 only tiine to express his joy at seeing his master, 

 and expired within an hour after his arrival. 



A late tourist has recorded the followiniy curious 

 anecdote : 



'At a convent in France, twenty paupers were 

 served with a dinner every day at a given hour. A 

 dog belonging to a convent did not fail to be present 

 at this regala, because of the odds and ends which 

 were frequently thrown down to him. The guests, 

 however, being poor and hungry, the dog did not 

 get much. The portions were served one by one, 

 at the ringing of the bell, and delivered out by means 

 of what, in religious houses, is called a tour, which 

 is a machine like the section of a cask, that, turning 

 round on a pivot, exhibits whatever is placed on the 

 concave side, without discovering the person who 

 moves it. One day this dog, who had only received 

 a i'ew scraps, waited till the paupers were all gone, 

 took the rope in his mouth, and rang the bell. This 

 stratagem succeeded. He repeated it the next day 

 with the same good fortune. At length the cook, 

 finding that twenty-one portions were given out in- 

 stead of twenty, was determined to discover the 



