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was travelling through Holland, accompanied by a large 

 Newfoundland dog. Walking one evening on a high bank 

 by the side of a canal, his foot slipped, he fell into the 

 water, and, being unable to swim, soon became senseless. 

 When he recovered his recollection, he found himself in 

 a cottage on the opposite side of the canal, surrounded 

 by peasants, who had been using all means for restoring 

 him to life. He was told, that one of them returning 

 home from his work, saw at a considerable distance a 

 large dog swimming in the water, sometimes pushing 

 and sometimes dragging something which he appeared 

 to have great difficulty in supporting, but which he at 

 length succeeded in getting into a small creek. When 

 there, the animal pulled this object as far out of the 

 water as he was able, and the peasant discovered it to be 

 the body of a man. The dog shook himself, licked the 

 hands and face of his master ; the peasant obtained as- 

 sistance, and the body was conveyed to the house, where 

 the endeavours used for resuscitation proved successful. 

 Two bruises with marks of teeth appeared, one on the 

 shoulder, the other on the nape of his neck ; whence it 

 was presumed that his preserver first seized him by the 

 shoulder, but that his sagacity prompted him to shift 

 his grasp to the neck, as by so doing he could keep the 

 head out of the water. He had continued to do this 

 for at least a quarter of a mile, and thus preserved his 

 owner, as much by his intelligence as by his affection. 



The Newfoundland dog, like many others, possesses a 

 sense of time, and Mr. Bell relates an instance of this 

 which occurred under his own observation. He says 

 that a fine Newfoundland dog, which was kept at an inn 

 in Dorsetshire, was accustomed every morning, as the 

 clock struck eight, to take in his mouth a certain basket, 



