THE DOG. 159 



*_ - Detection of a robber. 



day, the dog still followed him, though at such a 

 distance, that he always kept him in his eyes. 

 When the fellow threw him meat, he refused it; 

 when he went to bed, the dog watched at his 

 door; and when he rose in the morning, the ani- 

 mal still followed him, fawning upon the passen- 

 gers upon the road, but still barking and baying 

 at the heels of the robber. These things, when 

 they heard who were in pursuit of the sacrilegi- 

 ous person, and were told withal by those they 

 met, the colour and bigness of the do;-;, they 

 were the more vigorous in the pursuit, and by 

 that means overtaking the thief, brought him 

 back from Cromyon ; while the animal ran be- 

 fore, leaping and capering, and full of joy, as it 

 \vere challenging to himself the praise and re- 

 ward of apprehending the temple robber : and 

 the Athenians were so grateful to him, that they 

 decreed a certain quantity of meat to be publicly 

 measured to him, and ordered the priests to take 

 care to see it done. 



A certain Roman was slain in the civil wars, 

 whose head nobody durst cut off, for fear of the 

 dog that guarded his body, and fought in his de- 

 fence. It happened that King Pyrrhus, travel- 

 ling that way, observed the animal watching over 

 the body of the deceased ; and hearing that he 

 had been there three days without meat or drink, 

 yet would not forsake his master, ordered the 

 body to be buried, and the dog preserved and 

 brought to him. A few days afterward there 



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