THE DOG. 153 



Remarkable preservation. 



river. A maid-servant, in flying from one of the 

 falling houses, dropped an infant from her arms, 

 which was supposed to have perished. Next 

 day, however, it was found unhurt, on a dry 

 piece of ground, along with a lap-dog, belonging 

 to the same family. The dog was close by the 

 child, and it is imagined that the child was kept 

 alive by the warmth of the animal's body. 



The late Alderman Yearsley, of Congleton, in 

 Cheshire, had a favourite bitch, which appears 

 to have been an instrument in the hands of Pro- 

 vidence, of saving a valuable life : 



Mr. Yearsley had gone out one evening to a 

 public house, and taken the dog with him. A 

 little before he was expected home, the animal 

 returned, and scratched at the door for admit- 

 tance. Being let in, she followed her mistress 

 into the kitchen, where she set up a strange 

 kind of whining or barking, and turned towards 

 the street door, as if inviting her mistress to 

 follow. This she repeated several times, to the 

 great astonishment of Mrs. Yearsley. At length 

 a thought struck her, that Mr. Yearsley had met 

 with some accident in the street, and that the 

 bitch, which could scarcely be ever driven from 

 him, was come to guide her to him. Alarmed 

 with this idea, she hastily adjusted her cap, and 

 followed the animal, which led her to her master, 

 whom to her agreeable disappointment, she 

 found very well at the house he went to. She 

 fold them the cause of her coming, and go 

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