THE DOG. 73 



A pieman and clog A canine mendicant. 



The pieman, who understood what the animal 

 wanted, showed him a penny, and pointed to his 

 master, who stood at the street-door and saw 

 what was going on. The dog immediately sup- 

 plicated his master by many humble gestures and 

 looks; and on receiving a penny "he instantly 

 carried it in his mouth to the pieman, and re- 

 ceived his pie. This traffic between the pieman 

 and the grocer's dog continued to be daily prac- 

 tised for several months. 



The following anecdote, extracted from Dib- 

 din's Observations in a Tour through England is 



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too interesting to bypassed over in silence. 

 " At a convent in Trrance," says our author, 

 " twenty paupers were served with a dinner at a 

 certain hour every day. A dog belonging to the 

 convent did not fail to be present at this regale, 

 to receive the odds and ends which were now 

 and then thrown do'.vn to him. The guests, 

 however, were poor and hungry, and of course 

 not very wasteful; so that their pensioner did lit- 

 tle more than scent the feast of which he would 

 fain have partaken. 'I he portions were served 

 by a person, at the ringing of a bell, and deli- 

 vered out by means of what in religious houses 

 is called a tour; which is a machine like the sec- 

 tion of a cask, and, by turning round upon a 

 pivot, exhibits whatever is placed on the concave 

 side, Without discovering the person who moves 

 it. One day this dog, who had only received a 

 few scraps, waited till the paupers were all gone, 

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