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notice of them, never even casting a glance in their 

 direction as he went by, or giving a single lash to his 

 tail. All went smoothly till unluckily one night the 

 servant, whose business it was to shut up the sheep in 

 then shed, and the dog in his own premises, forgot all 

 about it, and the next morning when the sun rose, three 

 dead bodies were found stretched in the yard, with just 

 one little wound in their throats, where the blood had 

 been sucked. The murderer meanwhile was doing his 

 daily work, as cheerfully and patiently as if he had 

 nothing on his mind at all. 



Now and then, however, Fowler showed that he had a 

 conscience. Some geese, which had once been wild, 

 lived on the farm, and one of them was very fond of his 

 master, and would even go out to walk with him about 

 the place, strutting side by side with Fowler. They 

 seemed to be the best of friends, and nobody gave a 

 thought to the fact that, next to sheep and dried fish, 

 Newfoundlands love poultry. But they were soon 

 reminded of it. As in the case of the sheep, the geese 

 were one night left at large, by accident. Next morning 

 neither goose nor dog appeared to go their rounds with their 

 master, and search was made. A few white feathers were 

 found in a field outside the grounds, and after some time 

 Fowler was discovered behind a woodstack in the yard, 

 looking, for once, very much ashamed of himself. His 

 master called the dog to follow him, and led him to the 

 field, where the scattered feathers were pointed out to 

 him. Fowler looked once at the man who had detected his 

 crime, then, with a howl of regret rushed away from the 

 field, and no persuasions would get him near his master 

 for many days after. 



Of course, most of the stories about Newfoundland 

 dogs have to do with rescue from drowning, for these 

 animals, from their great size and skill in swimming, are 

 more useful in saving life than any man. But here are some 

 very clever tricks of a dog that belonged, a great many 



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