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the gentleman. He afterwards purchased the 

 dog for a large sum, treated it as long as he lived 

 with great kindness, and had the following words 

 worked on his table-cloths and napkins " Virum 

 extuli man';" which may be thus translated "I 

 have rescued a man from the sea." 



You will be amused with the following anec- 

 dote, for it is something in your way as sailors. 

 There was a Newfoundland dog on board H.M.S. 

 Bellona, which not only kept the deck at the 

 bloody battle of Copenhagen, but ran backwards 

 and forwards with so much courage and apparent 

 anger at the foes, that he became a greater 

 favourite than ever with the crew. When the 

 ship was paid off, after the Peace of Amiens, the 

 sailors had a parting dinner on shore. Victor, 

 the dog, was placed in the chair, and fed with 

 roast beef and plum-pudding, his health drank, 

 and the bill made out in Victor's name. 



A kitten, only a few days old, had been put 

 into a pail of water in the stable-yard of an inn 

 for the purpose of drowning it. It had remained 

 there for a minute or two, until it was to all ap- 

 pearance dead, when a female terrier, attached 

 to the stables, took the kitten from the water and 

 carried it off in her mouth. She suckled and 



