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was directed to drive were often reluctant to leave their own pastures, and sometimes the intervention 

 of rivers or other obstacles made their progress peculiarly difficult. On such occasions, Yarrow 

 continued his efforts to drive his plunder forward until the day began to dawn, a signal which, he 

 conceived, rendered it necessary for him to desert his spoil, and slink homeward by a circuitous road. 

 It is generally said this accomplished Dog was hanged along with his master ; but the truth is, he 

 survived him long, in the service of a man in Leithen : yet was said afterwards to have shown little of 

 the wonderful instinct exhibited in the service of Millar. 



" Another instance of similar sagacity a friend of mine discovered in a beautiful little Spaniel, 

 which he had purchased from a dealer in the canine race. When he entered a shop, he was not long 

 in observing that his little companion made it a rule to follow at some interval, and to estrange itself 

 from his master so much as to appear totally unconnected with him. And when he left the shop, it 



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was the Dog's custom to remain behind him till it could find an opportunity of seizing a pair of gloves, 

 or silk stockings, or some similar property, which it brought to its master. The poor fellow probably 

 saved its life by falling into the hands of an honest man." 



Equally good is the account given by Mr. Youatt of a pair of canine house-lifters, whose talents 

 were really pre-eminent. One is almost tempted to wonder if an iron safe with all the most recent 

 improvements would have been proof against their attacks. 



" The writer of this work had a brace of Greyhounds as arrant thieves as ever lived. They would 

 now and then steal into the cooking-room belonging to the kennel, lift the lid from the boiler, and, if 

 any portion of the joint or piece of meat projected above the water, suddenly seize it, and before there 

 was time for them to feel much of its heat, contrive to whirl it on the floor, and eat it at their leisure 

 as it got cold. In order to prevent this, the top of the boiler was secured by an iron rod passing under 

 its handle, and tied to the handle of the boiler on each side ; but not many days passed ere they 

 discovered that they could gnaw the cords asunder, and displace the rod, and fish out the meat as 

 before. Small chains were then substituted for the cords, and the meat was cooked in safety for nearly 

 a week, when they found that, by rearing themselves on their hind legs, and applying their united 

 strength towards the top of the boiler, they could lift it out of its bed, and roll it along the floor, and 

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