122 AFFECTION IN DOGS. 



getting to the farm, where he used almost human 

 means to prevail upon the fellow workmen to go 

 with him to render assistance to his unfortunate 

 master. 



These anecdotes may serve to prove, not only 

 the sense and attachment of dogs, but that when 

 they have been educated by man and become his 

 companion, they may almost be considered as 

 rational animals. I was interested the other day 

 in watching a flock of sheep, attended by a drover 

 and his dog, as they were passing along a turnpike 

 road. The man went into an ale-house by the 

 road side, leaving his dog to look after the sheep. 

 They spread themselves over the road and foot- 

 path, some lying down and others feeding, while 

 the dog, faithful to his trust, watched them care- 

 fully. When any carriage passed along the road, 

 or a person was seen on the foot-path, the dog 

 gently drove the sheep on one side to make a 

 passage, and then resumed his station near the 

 ale-house door. Those indeed who have tra- 

 velled much at the time of the great fair of Wey- 

 hill, must have observed the sagacity of the dro- 

 vers 5 dogs on the approach of a carriage. A 

 passage is made for it through the most numerous 

 flocks of sheep, in the readiest and most expert 

 manner, without any signal from the drover. 

 The fatigue that these dogs must undergo is very 

 great, and yet one sees them sidle up to their 



