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him to pick it up and to give it to me, and ever after he 

 would pick up any coloured rabbit that might be killed. 



" Wolf's dinner hour was at my dessert time, the last 

 thing the retiring servants had to do was to place his 

 plate upon the hearthrug. Occasionally they neglected 

 to do this, and then he had seen me ring the bell, to 

 rectify the omission. For some years before his death, 

 when his dinner was due, and had not been brought in, 

 after looking at me with a wistful expression of coun- 

 tenance, he would go up and kiss the bell handle, and 

 then come to me, look up in my face, and push my arm 

 with his nose. Of course, up came his dinner, with a 

 ring from the bell, denoting double quick time." 



More than forty years since, there was a Lon- 

 don street dog which took a great fancy to fol- 

 lowing the fire engines. Whenever there was a 

 fire there would the dog be seen running in and 

 out among the throng apparently making himself 

 as busy as possible. This strange conduct of the 

 animal, of course, attracted the attention of the 

 firemen, and after a time they used to feed and take no- 

 tice of him, occasionally giving him a ride on the en- 

 gine. At last, so well was the dog known that he came 

 to be called the Fireman's Dog. He owned no master, 

 but stopped a day or two with any of the firemen he 

 took a fancy to. He was always on the alert, directly 

 the fire alarm was given, and used frequently to run by 

 the side of the horses for miles together. At last the 

 dog on one of the journeys, was run over and killed, 

 when the firemen had his body stuffed and set up in a 

 glass case in the principal office of the Metropolitan 



