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a drover anent young pigs, the drover clapped the butcher 

 on the shoulder while delivering his ultimatum as to price, 

 the dog flew at him furiously to avenge a supposed assault 



on his master. 



M. C. WELBY. 



April 25, 1909. 



NOTE. " Whoever loved that loved not at first sight?" 



" I am thy love, 

 Thy Amoret, for evermore thy love ! 



Speak, if thou be here, 

 My Perigot 1 Thy Amoret, thy dear, 

 Calls on thy loved name. . . . 'Tis thy friend, 

 Thy Amoret. ..." 



A DOG'S FIDELITY. 



Last week a gamekeeper named Henry Osmond, in the 

 employ of Lord Falmouth, was fatally shot in a poaching 

 affray in the Tregothnan Woods. The evidence shows 

 that Osmond must have died between 6.30 and 7 o'clock 

 on Tuesday evening, January 26. His body was not dis- 

 covered until 5 o'clock on the following Wednesday after- 

 noon. All these hours, during which it rained pitilessly, 

 a retriever puppy remained immovable by the side of her 

 dead master, and in her fierce affection would not allow 

 the search-party to touch the body. At last it was secured 

 and fastened to a tree, but the faithful animal gnawed 

 through the rope and returned to its guardianship of the 

 dead, then following the body as it was borne by reverent 

 hands to the keeper's house. Such touching affection 

 deserves, I think, to be put on record in the columns of 

 the Spectator. 



A LOVEE OF DOGS. 



February 13, 1904. 



