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they knew that the faithful animal would never allow any 

 one to touch either the clothes or the provisions. 



There could hardly be a stronger instance of moral re- 

 sponsibility than the one which I shall now relate, which is 

 substantially the same as appears in Wood's " Man and 

 Beasts Here and Hereafter." Living in an unprotected 

 part of Scotland was a poor woman, who unexpectedly 

 became possessed of a large sum of money. She would 

 have taken it to the bank, could she have left the house, but 

 lack of bodily health prevented her from so doing. At last 

 she asked the advice of a butcher of her acquaintance, telling 

 him that she was afraid to live in the house with so much 

 money about her. " Never fear," said the butcher, " I will 

 leave my dog with you, and I'll warrant you that no one will 

 dare to enter your house." Towards the close of the day 

 the dog was brought, and chained up close to the place 

 where the money was deposited. That very night a robber 

 made his way into the house and was proceeding to carry off 

 the money, when he was seized by the dog, who held him a 

 prisoner until assistance arrived. The thief turned out to be 

 the butcher himself, who thought he had made sure of the 

 money, but he had not considered that his dog was a better 

 moralist than himself, for who would, rather than betray a 

 defenceless woman, take her part against his own master. 

 Kindly pardoned by the woman, the intending robber made 

 his way home, and it is to be hoped that for the future he 

 learned a lesson from his own dog and amended the evil of 

 his ways. 



Not only does the dog guard the property which is in- 

 trusted to its charge, but frequently goes a little further and 

 assumes a charge on its own account. When the writer was 

 a boy living in the country, where much of the spring and 

 summer of the year was spent in working upon a farm, he 

 became on very excellent terms with a little bull-terrier, 

 named Tip, that belonged to a certain farmer by whom he was 

 employed. Upon my first introduction to Tip, I felt a sort of 



