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cruelty to cruelty, alternately stoning their victim and 

 dragging it through a dirty pool of water, then beating 

 and bruising it, and menacing it with drowning. Bi- 

 peds passed by unheeding the animal's cries of distress, 

 which were now nearly coming to a close with its life, 

 when a feeling quadruped came forward to save it. A 

 dog, having contemplated for some time this scene 

 of inhumanity, and barked disapprobation, rushed for- 

 ward on the young assassins, and driving them one by 

 one furiously off the spot, sprang to the rescue of the 

 bleeding animal, and withdrawing it from the deep 

 ditch, bore it off in triumph to his quarters ; there 

 extending it upon the straw, and licking it all over, he 

 recalled the vital spark, and then laying himself down 

 upon it, restored it to some degree of ease from the 

 warmth imparted to it. 



*' After this, the kind and feeling dog fetched pro- 

 vision to his sick charge, and the people of the house, 

 inspired by the example of the minor animal, gave it 

 warm milk. Day after day did the dog attend the 

 sick object of his care, until it was perfectly recovered ; 

 and they are both to be seen at this day, after a long 

 lapse of years, at the Talbot Inn, Liverpool." 



" Many are still the deer forests of Scotland, but 

 they are not what they were. Once a whole forest 

 was dedicated to the services of the chase alone : you 

 might have travelled from Banffshire to Ben Nevis 

 without deviating from the region possessed by the 

 noble Huntly. Sutherland, throughout the whole 

 of its extent, was one prodigious forest, and so it stiL 

 IS, although the introduction of sheep-farming has 

 made it lose its old pre-eminence. We need not 

 mention more ; the time has been, and it is not yet far 

 distant, when a herd of deer was to be found on every 

 mountain north of the Tay, and the slaughter at each 



