THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. 



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industriously licking. The peasant hastened to a bridge across the dyke, and, having obtained 

 a^tance, the body was conveyed to a neighbouring house, where proper " 



means soon 



HEAD OF BLOODHOUND. 



drowned man to life. Two very considerable bruises, with the marks of teeth, appeared, one on his 

 shoulder, and the other on his poll ; hence it was presumed that the faithful beast had first seized his 

 master by the shoulder, and swum with him in this manner for some time, but that his sagacity had 

 prompted him to quit his hold, and to shift it to the nape of the neck, by which he had been enabled 

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