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Bochart relates a case, then still witnessed at Paris, 

 by all who chose, of a dog who had followed his 

 master's hier to the grave three years before, and 

 was - then remaining on the spot.* A similar case 

 occurred in the last half century, at Lisle, where 

 the admiration of the neighbourhood caused a hut 

 to be built for the dog, upon the grave of his master, 

 and food to be brought him. The faithful creature 

 resided on the spot for nine years, when he died. 

 Recently, the public authorities in France having 

 made strenuous endeavours to abate smuggling be- 

 tween the frontiers of Belgium and that kingdom, 

 discovered that they had only transferred the prac- 

 tice from men to dogs, who were trained to carry 

 lace, and other small articles, securely packed, 

 across fields and rivers, where a w r hole army of 

 custom-house, or other officers, were inadequate to 

 arrest them. 



Dogs have propensities to act upon excitements 

 which would seem to be foreign to their nature, 

 though we know that musical sounds offend them, 

 yet to have so strong a predilection for harmony, as 

 is described to have been the case with a dog at 

 Paris, is very remarkable ; for this animal, who 

 was known, in the beginning of the Revolution, to 

 musicians, by the name of Parade, because he regu- 

 larly attended the military at the Thuileries, stood 



* Hierosoicon. A later account attests his continuation in 

 the Church-yard of St. Innocent, to the end of his life. See 

 also the affecting anecdote given in Bell's British Quadrupeds, 

 page 223. 



