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in a large barn and carriage house. A dog kept in 

 the barn ran up-stairs and aroused the coachman 

 who had scarcely time to escape through the win- 

 dow. The dog did not attempt to follow, but being 

 encouraged by his success in saving his master, re- 

 turned to the lower floor, and made a great, though 

 pitiful effort to save the horses, but without success, 

 and all perished together. 



A farmer of Winnamac, Indiana, was moving his 

 family into an adjoining county ; and on starting, 

 placed the seven-months-old babe in the care of its 

 brother, who, getting tired of carrying it, laid it in a 

 basket beside a bush, near a steep bluff, and followed 

 on without it. On arriving at the new farm the 

 grief-stricken mother, missing the baby, was frantic ; 

 and started back for the spot where the babe had 

 been left. In a short time she met their faithful 

 dog " Ned " with the babe. He had discovered it, 

 and was lugging it safely along. As soon as the 

 happy mother received her child, poor Ned lay down 

 and died from exhaustion. The affection of the dog 

 for the child was greater than that of the child's 

 brother. Such self-sacrifice can only be compared 

 to the rarest and noblest acts of man. Such noble 

 animals take the risk, with the knowledge of the 



