2 8c DOG STORIES 



THE DOG AND HIS MASTER'S 

 GRAVE. 



[June 22, 1895.] 



MAY I give another instance of a dog's 

 fidelity to a dead master ? The curate of 

 a parish adjoining mine in the Vale of 

 Evesham, having died in the hamlet in which 

 he served, was buried in the parish church- 

 yard, some two miles distant. His dog had 

 had been shut up till after the funeral, 

 and, when let loose, was supposed to be 

 lost. It was found some days afterwards 

 lying on its master's grave. He came 

 from Newfoundland, and I rather think 

 had brought the dog from thence. When I 

 was dining with another incumbent near 

 Evesham, his dog walked in. It had been 

 given to a gentleman who lived near Birming- 

 ham, and sent thither by train, but found its 

 way back, more than thirty miles. The 

 same thing happened, not long ago, near this, 

 and the dog, which came from Londonderry, 

 must have made its way all round Lough 

 S willy, a distance of many miles. It had 

 been sent by railway and steamboat. 



N. S. BATT, A.M. 



