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to my opinion in respect to that matter. To 

 return to dog, the same })rcsentiment of imme- 

 diate danger or suddenly ajoproacliing misfortune, 

 which most certainly at times have throAvn the dim 

 forecast of impending deatli over tlie reasoning 

 mind of man, have, under similar circumstances, 

 dwelt in the gifted brains of dogs. My own 

 retriever, on that, to me, wretched day, when he 

 accidentally died by my hand, Avent, not more 

 than an hour before he was wanted to go out 

 shooting, and hid himself in a strange place, and 

 lay down by the side of the road, and close to 

 labouring men, strange to him, and whose class he 

 always detested. 



He was reported by a passer-by as being there, 

 was sent for, and he came and did his duty as well 

 as ever, until the moment he sprang from behind 

 me, and underneath the barrels of my gun. At 

 the first discharge he leaped at the bank Ijefore 

 me, unmindful of his duty not to go until he was 

 told to do so, and from his unexpected rise beneath 

 the barrels, the discharge of the second barrel just 

 caught the extreme edge of the back of the skull, 

 and killed liim. In another instance. Bull, a iight- 

 hig dog, was so disgusted if any one danced before 



