and dies, they will not touch the body at all, but 

 they stand wagging their tails, showing that they 

 race for glory, not meat. 



The Dog as Avenger <^ *o <^>- -o>- 



"\I THEN Calvus the Roman was killed in the 

 * * civil wars, no one was able to cut off his 

 head until the murderers formed a ring and stabbed 

 his dog, which showed fight for his body. King 

 Pyrrhus, again, on a journey, fell in with a dog 

 watching the body of a slain man, and, when he 

 heard that it had stayed there two days without 

 food and would not leave the body, he ordered his 

 men to bury the body and bring the dog carefully 

 away. A few days later he held a review, and the 

 troops marched past the king, who had the dog 

 with him, quite quiet. But when the dog saw the 

 murderers of his master pass, he sprang out 

 furiously against them, and barked at them several 

 times, turning round to Pyrrhus, so that not only 

 the king but all the bystanders looked on the men 

 with suspicion. So they were arrested at once 

 and examined, and, there being some little cor- 

 roborative evidence, they confessed the murder 

 and suffered for it. ... A man once broke into 



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