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Single combat between a dog and an assassin. 



Jet loose upon him; and a most dreadful contest 

 took place. The chevalier made a thrust, but 

 the dog springing aside, seized him by the throat, 

 and threw him down. The villain now confessed 

 his crime, and the king, that the remembrance 

 of the faithful animal might be transmitted to 

 posterity, caused to be erected to him, in the 

 forest where the murder was committed, a mar- 

 ble monument, with the following inscription: 

 !' Blush, hard-hearted wretch ! an irrational ani- 

 mal knows and loves gratitude; and thou perpe- 

 trator of crimes, in the moment of guilt, be afraid 

 pf thine own shadow.'' 



" In the county of Ulster, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Pennsylvania," says an American planter, 

 in his Letters on Cultivation, " lived a man, 

 whose name was Le Fevre; he was the grandson 

 of a Frenchman, who was obliged to fly his 

 country at the revocation of the edict of Nantes. 

 He might well have been called the last of man- 

 kind, for he possessed a plantation on the very 

 verge of the valley towards the Blue Moun- 

 tains, a place of refuge for animals of the deer 

 kind. 



This man, having a family of eleven children, 

 was greatly alarmed one morning at missing the 

 youngest, who was about four years of age; he 

 disappeared about ten o'clock. The distressed 

 family sought after him in the river, and in the 

 fields, but to no purpose. Terrified to an ex- 

 treme degree, they united with their neighbours 



