158 NATURALISTS CABINET. 



Remarkable instance of attachment. 



him from fondling his master, whom he knew 

 from every other person, and for whom his affec- 

 tion and solicitude rather increased than dimi- 

 nished. The old gentleman after a short illness 

 died. The dog knew the circumstance; attended 

 the corpse, blind as he was; and did his utmost 

 to prevent the undertaker from screwing up the 

 body in the coffin, and most outrageously op- 

 posed its being taken out of the house. Being 

 past hope, he grew disconsolate, lost his flesh, 

 and was evidently verging towards his end. One 

 day he heard a gentleman come into the house, 

 and rose to meet him. His master, being old 

 and infirm, had worn ribbed worsted stockings 

 for warmth; this gentleman happened to have 

 stockings on of the same kind. The dog, from 

 this information, thought it was his master, and 

 began to demonstrate the most extravagant plea- 

 sure, but, upon farther examination, finding his 

 mistake, he retired into a corner, where, in a 

 short time afterwards he expired." 



Plutarch records, that a person getting into 

 the temple of Esculapius, after he had stolen all 

 the massy offerings of gold and silver, made his 

 escape, not believing he was discovered. But 

 the dog which belonged to the temple, which 

 was called Cipparas, when he found that none of 

 the sacristanes took any notice of his barking, 

 pursued himself the sacrilegious thief; and, 

 though at first the fellow pelted him with stones, 

 be could not beat him oft'. As soon as it was 



