330 ALL ABOUT DOGS 



dyke, his foot slipped and he was precipitated into the 

 water, and being unable to swim soon lost his senses. 

 When he recovered consciousness, he found himself in 

 a cottage on the other side of the dyke, surrounded by 

 peasants, who had been using the means for the re- 

 covery of drowned persons. The account given him 

 by one of them was, that returning home from work 

 he observed, some distance off, a large dog in the water, 

 swimming and dragging, and sometimes pushing along 

 something that he seemed to have great difficulty in 

 supporting, but which he at length succeeded in getting 

 into a small creek on the opposite side. When the ani- 

 mal had pulled what he had hitherto supported, as far 

 out of the water as he was able, the peasant was able 

 to discover that it was the body of a man, whose face 

 and hands the dog was industriously licking. He 

 hastened to a bridge across the dyke, and having ob- 

 tained assistance, the body was conveyed to a neigh- 

 bouring house, where proper means soon restored the 

 drowning 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 the 

 faithful beast had first seized his master by the shoul- 

 der and swam with him in this manner for sometime, 

 but that his sagacity had prompted him to quit this hold 

 and to shift it to the nape of the neck, by which he had 

 been enabled to support the head out of the water and 

 in this way he had conveyed him, nearly a quarter of 

 a mile, before he had brought him to the creek where 

 the banks were low and accessible. 



Another story runs as follows: A vessel was 



