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set off to his house for the gun, and during his 

 absence, the dog, recalled by his master's whistle, 

 returned to his side, ranged out, and pointed ; 

 then stealing away, while the shooter was 

 charging, went back to his nefarious work, just 

 as the avenger of innocence, armed with one of 

 those long-stocked, old-fashioned pieces, which 

 so often sent death into the British ranks in the 

 days of '76, made his timely appearance upon 

 the scene. The ancient revolutioner was 

 promptly levelled, and, of course, the malefactor 

 died the death. 



He was in his third year, and, as far as could 

 be ascertained, this was his first transgression. 



We have heard of another case, where a set- 

 ter, suspected of a similar piece of atrocity, was 

 penned up for the night with a pugnacious old 

 ram, who, it was supposed, would not fail to kill 

 or cure him before morning. 



The supposition was ill-founded, however, 

 for at daylight the patriarch of the flock was 

 found stark and stiff, with his throat terribly 

 torn, while the setter, wholly uninjured, was 

 wagging his tail to get out. 



There is a loping dog, a cross between the 

 pointer and setter sometimes rough and some- 

 times smooth which we would caution our 

 young readers to have nothing to do with. There 



