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life devoted to the amelioration of their fituatioa 

 far too little for their deferts. 



Being engaged in a fubjecl, on which I profefs 

 myfelf an enthufiaft, I beg to be indulged in one 

 more ftory, to which, though I was not, as in the 

 above inftance, a witnefs, yet, from the authority 

 on which I received it, 1 can venture to anfwer for 

 its authenticity. In the parifh of St. Olave, Tooley- 

 llreet, l^orough, the church-yard is wholly detached 

 from the church, and furrounded with high build- 

 ings, fo as to be wholly inacceffible but by one large 

 clofed gate. 



A poor tailor, in this parifli, dying, left a fmall 

 cur-dog inconfolable for his lofs. The little animal 

 would not leave the dead body, not even for food ; 

 and whatever he ate w^as forced to be placed in the 

 fame room with the corpfe. When the body was re- 

 moved for burial, this faithful attendant followed 

 the coffin. After the funeral, he was hunted out of 

 the church-yard by the fexton, who, on going to 

 ring the morning bell the next day, again found the 

 animal, who had made his way by fome unaccount- 

 able means into the church-yard, and had dug him- 

 felf a bed on the grave of his mafter: again he was 

 hunted out, and again found in the fame fituation 

 the following day. The minifter of the parifli now 

 hearing the circumftance, had him caught, taken 

 home, and fed ; and by every means endeavoured 



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