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trick, in doing which he had no great difficulty; 

 for, being hid, and noticing tho paupers as they 

 came in great regularity for their diflPerent portions, 

 and that there was no intruder except the dog, he 

 began to suspect the real truth, which he was con- 

 firmed in when he saw him wait with great deliber- 

 ation till all the visitors were gone, and then pull 

 the bell. He was every day afterwards rewarded 

 with a plate of broken victuals, which he punctually 

 rano; for,' 



Mr. Douce, of Hampstead, (cryer of the court of 

 king's berich, in lord Mansfield's time,) had a fa- 

 vourite pointer, whose fore-leg, in jumping a gate, 

 was broken. Unwilling to lose him, Mr, Douce 

 took him to his friend, a surgeon at Mill hill, who 

 set the leg, and put on the proper bandage, and, 

 about once a-\v€ek, Mr. Douce went with Cato to 

 the surgeon's to have the leg inspected. After con- 

 tinuing so to do for a time, the surgeon one day 

 informed him that he need not take the trouble of 

 walking there with Cato, for that Cato frequently 

 came by himself to have his leg looked to, and con- 

 tinued to do so till his leg was well. 



Some time after the leg was cured, the surgeon 

 one morning, while at breakfast in a room behind 

 his shop, saw Co/o jump the half-door, and observed 

 to his wife, that his old friend was come to see him. 

 The dog approached, and shewed signs to the sur- 

 geon that he wanted the door opened ; on going to 

 which the surgeon found that Cato had brought him 

 a patient which he had picked up, a poor terrier, 

 witii a broken leg. 



The following is another authenticated instance 

 of this animal's sagacity. About the year 1811, a 

 gentleman gave a greyhound bitch, named Trenck, 

 to his brother, residing at Blackheath, who received 

 her as a pensioner, by way of reward for her past ser- 

 vices (which had been eminent,) that she might pass 

 the remainder of her days in ease, in preference to 



