THE EMOTION OF GRIEF IN ANIMALS 8 1 



not his master, no, not when he is star eke dead.' 

 The story of the ' Dog of Helvellyn ' is given with 

 sufficient detail in Wordsworth's verses. For three 

 months it remained the only mourner by the body 

 of its master, until it was found by a shepherd, who 

 recognised it as the dog which he had seen with the 

 lost man on the high passes late one summer evening. 

 A shepherd gave the following account of the incident 

 some years afterwards. ' The unfortunate man/ he 

 said, ' was a resident of Manchester, who was in the 

 habit of visiting the Lakes, and, trusting in his 

 knowledge of the country, had ventured to cross one 

 of the passes of Helvellyn late in the afternoon 

 accompanied only by his dog. In the dusk he 

 wandered from the track, fell over the rocks, and 

 perished. After many weeks of fruitless search the 

 dog was discovered guarding his master's body.' The 

 shepherd had never heard the poem, but concluded 

 his story with exactly the same sentiment, if not 

 the same words, ' God knows,' he said, c how the poor 

 beast was supported so long.' The ' Dog of Helvellyn ' 

 gained a monument in Wordsworth's verse. Another 

 dog mourner has been honoured by a monument of 

 stone. This is the Edinburgh dog, * Grey friars' 

 Bobby/ which followed its master's body to the 

 funeral, and, after the burial, lay so constantly by 

 the grave that the keepers of the graveyard gave it 



