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cautious dogs will do ; and he forgot that his weight 

 was so great as to spoil and crush whatever he laid 

 himself upon. As an instance of the former, he one day 

 fancied he saw some one whom he knew in the street, 

 and immediately dashed through the window, smashing 

 not only the glass, but the framework. Directly he 

 had done it he felt he had been wrong ; and returning 

 through the shattered window, which was opened for 

 him, he hung his head, and walked unbidden to a recess 

 in the room covered with matting, to which place he 

 was always banished when naughty, and seated himself. 

 The bell was rung for the housemaid to come and clear 

 away the broken glass ; and as the woman smiled when 

 she passed Lion, I turned my head towards him. There 

 he sat, with a pair of my slippers, accidentally left in 

 the room, in his mouth, as if he thought they would 

 obtain his pardon. My gravity was disturbed; and 

 Lion seeing this, humbly came up to me, and rested his 

 chin on my knees. I then lectured him concerning the 

 mischief he had committed ; and he so perfectly under- 

 stood, that for a long time, when any one pointed to 

 the window, he would hang his head and tail, and look 

 ashamed. During my absence he constantly collected 

 articles which belonged to me, and slept upon them. 

 One day, on returning from church, he met me on the 

 stairs, dragging a new silk dress along with him by the 

 sleeve, which he must have contrived by himself to have 

 abstracted from a peg in a closet. 



It must be owned that, clever as my Lion was, 

 Professor Owen was acquainted with a Lion who sur- 

 passed him. This gentleman was walking with a friend, 

 the master of the dog. by the side of a river, near its 

 mouth, on the coast of Cornwall, and picked up a small 

 piece of sea- weed. It was covered with minute animals ; 



