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Singular anecdote. 



loved dogs, and the observations I have made 

 lire innumerable, and all to their advantage; 

 among the rest I am competent to declare, that 

 they make friendships, always, however, with 

 caution, among one another. Upon these occa- 

 sions, they premise their compact, they observe 

 it inviolably, and this understood, the strongest 

 protect the rest. 



" I shall now relate a circumstance which hap-r 

 pened under my own observation last summer, 

 and I introduce it here to give it force. You 

 know I would not affront you by asserting a fal- 

 sity, and I hope the public are equally inclined 

 to credit what I most solemnly declare to be fact. 

 This is the least 1 could say as the preface to my 

 story, 



" I took with me last summer one of those 

 spotted dogs, which are generally called Danish, 

 but the breed is Dalmatian. It was impossible 

 for any thing to be more sportive, yet more inr 

 offensive than this dog. Throughout the moun- 

 tainous parts of Cumberland and Scotland, his 

 delight was to chase the sheep, which he would 

 follow with great alertness even to the summits 

 of the most rugged steeps; and when he had 

 frightened them and made them scamper to his 

 satisfaction, (for he never attempted to injure 

 them,) he constantly came back, wagging his 

 tail, and appearing very happy at those caresses 

 >vhich we, perhaps absurdly, bestowed upon him. 

 H About seven miles on this side Kinross, in 



