No. 12. Anecdotes of the Dog. — The Flower-Pot Bee-Hive. 



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draw him out by the flap of his coat; and 

 when the door was open, he would immedi- 

 ately run to the lodge at a considerable dis- 

 tance, when the game-keeper knew his mas- 

 ter was ready ; and then he would return 

 quickly to the house. Another gentleman, 

 being a bad shot, when he has ^jissed his 

 game several times together, the dog gets 

 provoked, and has sometimes attacked his 

 master in a manner not to be misunderstood, 



Mr. Edward Cook, after having lived some 

 time with his brother at Togsten in Northum- 

 berland, went to America, and took with him 

 a pointer dog, which he lost soon after, wjiilo 

 shooting in the woods near Baltimore. Some 

 time after, Mr. and Mrs. Cook, who continued 

 to reside at Togsten, were alarmed at hearing 

 a dog bark in the night; they admitted it into 

 the house, and found it was the same their 

 brother had taken with him to America. The 

 dog continued with them until the return of 

 their brother, when they mutually recognised 

 each other ; but Mr. Cook was never able to 

 trace by what vessel the dog returned from 

 America, or in what part of England it had 

 been landed. 



A lady residing in the vicinity of London 

 had a terrier dog which was much attached 

 to her ; she gave this dog to a friend who was 

 going to reside at Bremen, (Germany.) In 

 about a week after her friend's arrival, he 

 wrote her word that the dog, after pining and 

 appearing completely wretched, had disap- 

 peared, and, that after a most active search, 

 nothing could be iieard of him. In a little 

 time, however, just as she was retiring for 

 the night, a loud barking was heard under 

 her window, and a pushmg at the door; on 

 opening it, the dog sprang in, rather thinner 

 than when he left, but still in good plight: 

 how he got back could never bo ascertained. 

 During the late wars in Europe, instances 

 occurred of dogs being found on the fields of 

 battle protecting the dead bodies of their 

 masters from being devoured by beasts and 

 birds of prey, watching over them with the 

 utmost care, and uttering howls, which show- 

 ed alike their misery and affection. 



A farmer lived in a very lonely situation, 

 no house being within two miles of his dwell- 

 ing. He was in the habit of drinking deeply, 

 and would frequently remain at the market 

 many days: his family therefore did not sit 

 up for him at night. On one occasion, how- 

 ever, when they had gone to bed, they were 

 alarmed by the violent barking and howling 

 of the house-dog, which always rested in the 

 kitchen. His mistress and two men-servants 

 got up and endeavoured to appease the dog, 

 but the animal rushed with the utmost vio- 

 lence against the door, and used every en- 

 deavour to get out, biting at the wood-work, 

 and at the same lime sending forth most pi- 



teous bowlings The people in the house 

 apprehended an attack of robbers, but at 

 length they opened the door and the dog 

 rushed out; but within an hour, the voice 

 of the farmer was heard, and upon the door 

 being opened, he appeared, attended by the 

 dog. He said, upon returning from market 

 drunk, he fell from his horse into a deep 

 dyke, and was wholly unable to get out, the 

 water being up to his neck : he clung to the 

 bank, and there held on till he was almost 

 frozen to death, and he remembered crying 

 out loudly for help; and just as all hope had 

 left him and he was nearly exhausted, he 

 found himself seized by the collar of his coai 

 by his noble and faiihful dog, who succeeded 

 by his exertions in extricating h(m from the 

 ditch, and with the utmost difficulty he 

 reached home. He was a mile from home 

 when he fell into the water, and the supposi- 

 tion is, that the dog, lying with his head on 

 the ground — the earth being a conductor of 

 sound — was enabled to hear the cries of his 

 master for help during the stillness of tne 

 night, and was thus the means of saving his 

 life !" 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



The Flower-Pot Bee-Hive. 



Mr. Editor, — After all that has been said 

 and written on the proper construction of the 

 bee-hive, and the praises which have beers 

 sung in favour of the palace of several sto- 

 ries, the non-swarming, self-ventilating, moth- 

 preventing, life-preserving structures, to the 

 tune of more than twenty dollars a-piece, 

 perhaps there is one which will at length 

 take the lead of all, in the march of bee- 

 breeding, and that is the common garden 

 Jlowcr-pot ! It is strong, warm in cold and 

 cool in hot weather, cheap, simple, conve- 

 nient, and particularly neat in appearance; 

 it is only necessary to take one of the largest 

 size for a breed ing-jso?, and when it is desired 

 to add to the hive, to choose one of the next 

 size, the mouth of which shall exactly fit the 

 bottom of that below it, and open the hole ; 

 and immediately it becomes an elegant and 

 neatly-finished compartment, which might in 

 this way be added tn, forming a pyramid of 

 most exact structure and elegant proportions, 

 to any height required. A hole of entrance 

 could easily be cut in the edge of the lower 

 pot, or two holes pretty near together may be 

 better ; it might be placed close to the bot- 

 tom-board, or raised half an inch all round 

 by small wedges, which might be preferable 

 in hot weather — any how you might wish to 

 fix it — and all, comparatively, at a very trifling 

 expense; the taking away the upper pot, ia 

 case of its becoming full, requiring only a 

 cork with which to stop tlie hole of communi* 



