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An injury revenged. 



quadrupeds, as rats, mice, weasels, &c.; and 

 possesses so much courage as to attack even the 

 badger. 



An anecdote related by Mr. Hope, and au- 

 thenticated by other persons, shows, that this 

 animal is both capable of resentment when in- 

 jured, and of great contrivance to accomplish it. 

 A gentleman of Whitmore in Staffordshire, used 

 to come twice a year to town ; and being fond of 

 exercise, generally performed the journey on. 

 horseback, accompanied most part of the way by 

 a faithful little terrier, which, lest he might lose 

 it in town, he always left to the care of his land- 

 iady at St. Alban's; and on his return he was 

 sure to find his little companion well taken care 

 of. But on his calling one time, as usual, for 

 his dog, the landlady appeared before him with 

 a woeful countenance: "Alas! Sir/' said she, 

 "your terrier is lost! Our great house-dog and 

 he had a quarrel; and the poor terrier was so 

 worried and bitten before we could part them, that 

 I thought he could never have got the better of 

 it. However, he crawled out of the yard, and 

 no one saw him for almost a week. He then re- 

 turned, and brought with him another clog, con- 

 siderably larger than ours; and they both toge- 

 ther fell on our great dog, and bit him so unmer- 

 cifully, that he has scarcely since been able to go 

 about the yard, or to eat his meat. Your dog 

 ,and his companion then disappeared, and have 

 jieyer since been seen at St. Alban's." The gen- 



