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tempt him to touch a dish offered him by the 

 repentant cook. 



The municipal police of New York declares a 

 terrible war against the canine race during the heats 

 of summer. A mournful-looking tumbrel promenades 

 the streets with two ill-looking niggers attending it. 

 One day, they tried to get hold of Nick, but the 

 brave dog caught hold of one scomidrel by the 

 breeches, and made such work of them and their 

 sable lining, that he was very glad indeed to be rid 

 of Master Nick. 



Nick was a dog that mingled prudence with his 

 courage. One evening he took flight before a 

 butcher's dog, and those who beheld the retreat 

 accused him of cowardice. As soon, however, as 

 he had arrived at the Highlanders' barracks, he 

 turned round and soon gave a good account of his 

 antagonist. 



Nick died in 1848, and his death was as tragical 

 as that of his Virginian friend. Nick had the im- 

 prudence to bite a general who reviewed the High- 

 landers, and was sentenced to be shot. He was 

 executed on the banks of the Haarlem River, and a 

 stone bearing in huge Gothic letters the name of 

 "Devil" recalls the familiar, though Satanic, appella- 

 tion which the Highlanders were wont to apply to 

 their familiar old Nick. 



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