FROM THE " SPECTATOR." 47 



A PARCEL-CARRYING DOG. 



[Feb. 9, 1895.] 



IN illustration of the anecdotal letters about 

 dogs and their habits, in the Spectator of 

 February 2nd, and Mr. Lang's paper in this 

 month's Nineteenth Century, I send you the 

 following story of a dog which I had in 1851 

 and for three years afterwards. He was a 

 handsome Newfoundland dog, and one of the 

 most intelligent animals with which it was 

 ever my good luck to meet. I was living in 

 a village about three miles from Dover, 

 where I did all my shopping and marketing, 

 being generally my own " carrier." Some- 

 times Nep would carry home a small parcel 

 for me, and always most carefully. On one 

 occasion Nep was with me when I chose 

 a spade, and asked the ironmonger to send 

 it by the village carrier. The spade was put 

 by, labelled and duly addressed. I went on 

 to have a bathe, my dog going with me, but 

 on finishing my toilet in the machine, and 

 calling and whistling for Nep, he was no- 

 where to be seen. He was not to be found 



