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Visits of a dog to an imprisoned master. 



some time there. Such unremitting fidelity, at 

 last won even the porter of the prison, and the 

 dog was at length allowed to enter. His joy at 

 seeing his master was unbounded ; his master's 

 was not less ; it was difficult to separate them : 

 but the honest gaoler, fearing for himself, carried, 

 the dog out of the prison, and he returned to his 

 place of retreat. The next morning, however, he 

 again came back, and repeated his visit for some 

 weeks; and once on each day was regularly ad- 

 mitted by the humane gaoler. The poor animal 

 licked the hand of his master, looked at him 

 again, again licked his hand, and after a few 

 mornings, feeling assured of re-admission, de- 

 parted at the call of the gaoler. When the day 

 of receiving sentence arrived, notwithstanding 

 the guards, which jealous power, conscious of its 

 deserts, stations around, the dog penetrated into 

 the hall, and couched himself between the legs of 

 the unhappy man, whom he was about to lose 

 for ever. The judges condemned his msster; 

 " and may my tears be paVdoned," says the be- 

 nevolent recorder of this fact, " for the burst of 

 indignation the judges condemned him to a 

 .speedy death, in the presence of hi i( dog!" Mons. R. 

 was re-conducted to the prison; and the dog, 

 though prevented from accompanying him, did 

 not quit the door for the whole of that night. 



The fatal hour of execution arrives with the 

 morning; the prison opens, the unfortunate man 

 passes out; his dog receives him at .the threshold ! 



