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So scented the grim feature, and upturn'd 

 His nostrils wide into the murkie air, 

 Sagacious of his quarry from so far." MILTON. 



received a signal from his master to return for the shilling he had seen put under 

 the stone. The dog turned back ; the gentlemen rode on and reached home, but to 

 their surprise and disappointment the hitherto faithful messenger did not return 

 during the day. It afterwards appeared that he had gone to the place where the 

 shilling was deposited, but the stone being too large for his strength to remove, 

 he had stayed howling at the place till two horsemen riding by, and attracted by 

 his seeming distress, stopped to look at him, when one of them alighting, removed 

 the stone, and seeing the shilling, put it into his pocket, not at the time conceiving 

 it to be the object of the dog's search. The dog followed their horses for several 

 miles, remained undisturbed in the room where they supped, followed the chamber- 

 maid into the bedchamber, and secreted himself under one of the beds. The 

 possessor of the shilling hung his trousers upon a nail by the bed-side ; but when 

 the travellers were both asleep, the dog took them in his mouth, and leaping out 

 of the window, which was left open on account of the sultry heat, reached the 

 house of his master at four o'clock in the morning, with the prize he had made 

 free with, in the pocket of which were found a watch and money, that were 

 returned upon being advertised, when the whole mystery was mutually unravelled 

 to the admiration of all the parties.* 



MEMORY AND GRATITUDE OF A DOG. 



306. Mr. Youatt relates the following anecdote of a Newfoundland dog, who was 

 greatly attached to him. He says, as it became inconvenient to him to keep the dog, 

 he gave him to one who he knew would treat him kindly. Four years passed, and 

 he had not seen him, when one day as he was walking towards Kingston, and had 

 arrived at the brow of the hill where Jerry Abershaw's gibbet then stood, he met 

 Carlo and his master. The dog recollected Mr. Youatt in a moment, and they 

 made much of each other. His master, after a little chat, proceeded towards 

 "VVandsworth, and Carlo, as in duty bound, followed him. Mr. Youatt had not, 

 however, got half-way down the hill, when the dog was again by his side, lowly 

 but deeply growling, and every hair bristling. On looking about he saw two 

 ill-looking fellows making their way through the bushes which occupied the 

 angular space between Roehampton and Wandsworth roads. Their intention was 

 scarcely questionable, and, indeed, a week or two before, he had narrowly escaped 

 from two miscreants like them. "I can scarcely say," proceeds Mr. Youatt, 

 " what I felt, for presently one of the scoundrels emerged from the bushes, not 

 twenty yards from me ; he no sooner saw my companion, and heard his growling, 

 the loudness and depth of which were fearfully increasing, than he retreated, and 

 I saw no more of him or his associate. My gallant defender accompanied me to 

 the direction post at the bottom of the hill, and there, with many a mutual and 

 honest greeting, we parted, and he bounded away to overtake his rightful owner. 

 We never met again ; but 1 need not say that 1 often thought of him with admira- 

 tion and gratitude." 



Jesse'* " Anecdotes of Dogs." 



