THE LOVE OF ANIMALS. 71 



poverty, distress, hunger, and even death itself. 

 Nothing destroys his love and attachment. We 

 have instances when officers have been killed in 

 battle, a loving dog has remained close to the body 

 of his master, howling his distress, refusing all 

 food and comfort, following the body to the 

 grave, and expiring upon it, thus showing his 

 affection to the last. 



Another affecting instance is related of a dog, 

 who followed his master to his grave, which was 

 in one of the London churchyards, and was 

 overlooked by several houses. On this grave 

 the dog scratched a hole and lay in it. One of 

 the kind-hearted inhabitants of the houses 

 brought it some food; but there it remained 

 day after day, but eating what was brought it. 

 At last, some one erected a small shed over it, 

 to shelter it from the weather. There the dog 

 might be seen year after year, protected and 

 sympathised with by every one who knew the 

 circumstance of its remarkable attachment, till 

 death and nothing but death released it from 

 its fidelity to the master it loved. 



But, before I proceed with my anecdotes of 

 these affectionate animals, I must express my 

 surprise that so many unfeeling allusions should 



