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reared them till they were able to shift for them- 

 selves*. 



The Terrier is the kind of Dog that we usually 

 observe employed to accompany and conduct blind 

 persons. By means of the string fastened to his 

 collar, he leads on his master, with the utmost 

 patience, from door to door; and, whilst the beg- 

 gar chaunts his miserable ditty, will frequently lie 

 down to repose himself upon the pavement. The 

 sound of money, or the well-known conclusion of 

 the song, immediately rouses him to proceed in his 

 labour. Such, indeed, is the sagacity of some of 

 these Dogs, that, on money being thrown from a 

 window, they have been seen to take it in their 

 mouth, and deposit it in safety in their master's cap 

 or hat. 



A gentleman who resided at Forton, near 

 Gosport, Hants, had a small Terrier Dog, to which 

 he was greatly attached, and which usually fol- 

 lowed him wherever he went. As, in the summer 

 of 1796, the weather was exceedingly hot, and 

 the animal had upon him many fleas, his master, in 

 crossing a mill-dam, plunged him into the water, 

 to swim to the opposite side, whilst he himself 

 walked round to the bridge. This practice, how- 

 ever, he continued only for a little while ; for, one 

 evening, the gentleman was surprised to observe 



* Daniel's Rural Sports, i. p. 02, 



that 



