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Marketing performed l>v a dog. 



brink of the precipice, and then either fallen or 

 scrambled down till he reached the cave; which 

 the dread of the torrent had afterwards prevented 

 him from quitting. The dog, by means of his 

 scent, had traced him to the spot; and afterwards 

 prevented him from starving by giving up to him 

 his own daily allowance. He appears never to 

 have quitted the child by night or day, except 

 when it was necessary to go for its food ; and 

 then he was always seen running at full speed to 

 and from the cottage." 



Dogs may l>e tmiuht.to go to market with 

 money, to repair to a ItS^wn shop, and carry 

 home provisions in safety^WSome years since, a 

 person residing at the turnpike-house about a 

 mile from Stratford on Avon, had trained a dog 

 to go to the town for any small articles of gro- 

 cery, Sic. that he wanted. A note, mentioning 

 the things, was tied round the animal's neck, and 

 in the same manner the articles were fastened ; 

 and in these errands the officious messenger al- 

 ways brought the commodities safely to his master. 



Smcllie, in his Philosophy of Natural History, 

 relates that a grocer in Edinburgh had a dog, 

 which for some time amused and astonished the 

 people in the neighbourhood. A man who went 

 through the streets ringing a bell and selling 

 penny pies, happened one day to treat this dog 

 with a pie. The next time he heard the pieman's 

 bell he ran impetuously toward him, seized him 

 by the coat, and would not suffer him to pass. 



