NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Anecdote of Christian I. king of Denmark. 



and watching the lost chair and basket: and had 

 the man been unsuccessful in his pursuit, she 

 must unavoidably either have perished with hun- 

 ger, or fallen a prey to some of the wild bea-i-. 

 with which these plains abound. 



The fidelity of the dog is recorded in the no- 

 ble order of the elephant, instituted by Christian 

 the First, king of .Denmark, so far back as the 

 year 1463. The origin was, his being deserted 

 at a most critical period, by all his friends and 

 courtiers, at the time he stood in great need of 

 their assistance. And having a favourite dog, 

 called Wild brat, who loved, and constantly at- 

 tended him, the contrast between this grateful 

 animal, and the infidelity of the vipers he had 

 formerly cherished, struck him so forcibly, that 

 lie commemorated the fact, by having the fol- 

 lowing initials placed under the elephant's feet, 

 which hangs at the bottom of the order. 



T. I. W. B. - True is Wildbrat. 

 Mr. Taylor informs us, in his General Cha- 

 racter of the Dog, that one of his friends being 

 at Ramsgate, for the benefit of his health, in the 

 year 1798, was often diverted by observing a 

 person stand on a cliff, which looked into the 

 inner bason of Ramsgate pier, and calling his 

 favourite dog, showed him a halfpenny, and then 

 threw it down the cliff among the shingles. The 

 animal immediately took a circuit to the bottom 

 of the cliff, and searched till he found the half- 

 penny, which he carried directly into town to a 



