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crossing his arms, and making a difference in the quality of its food, by giving it what wan especially likr.l, 

 but entirely without effect. At length he determined on making a ,*peei;d ,.\|,,., i,,,. ,,i , 

 aide-de-camp, Colonel Cameron, who had lost his right iinn, l-i offer the ,1.,- MBM food. Tim dog 

 approached the Colonel, without noticing the hand coiituining the loo. I, rose upon its hind l.-^s, applied 

 its nose to the place where the lost arm once was, as if to make smv that then- was n.> deception, and 

 then, apparently satisfied of this, passed on to the Colonel's left hand, and took the f.....l. 



THE BOUGH AY ATE II- DOG. 







THIS is a most intelligent and valuable animal. It is robustly made, ami covered throughout with 

 deep curly hair. It exceeds the water-spaniel in size and strength. It is much used M s a i. tii.-\. i by 

 shooters of water-fowl. No dog is more easily taught to fetch and carry fhaii this ; and it.-: mem> 

 surprising. This variety is the Barbet of the French, and is often call.-,! the Cerman i.r l-'iench 

 Poodle. Some are of a snowy white, others black, and others black and while. 



Mr. Henry Hawkes, a farmer residing at Hailing, in Kent., returning home at ni^ht, from 

 Maidstone market, followed by his dog, stopped at Aylcst'onl, drank inimo,|erat.el\ , ami . i.-atfld 



when he left the inn. A deep snow covered the face of the country, and the fVost was inten-e, but In- 

 passed the village of Newhead in safety, and took his w;;\ n\erSn.>dlaml I'-rook, in the m,,*t favourable 

 season a very dangerous road for a drunken man. He even reached unharmed the Willow \Y.-,|k, 

 within half a mile of the church, when, by a sudden stagger, he quitted the path, and passed over a 

 ditch on his right hand. Not aware that he was going astray, he took towards the river, but haxing a 

 high bank to mount, and being nearly exhausted with wandering, intn\i'-aied u he .i~. he was, 

 providentially, prevented from using the mound, or, as it WM MH In.uli wtMt, he would certainly ha\e 

 precipitated himself into the Medway. Completely overcome, he now fell among the MI.HV, turnini; 

 upon his back, and was soon overpowered by sleep, or cold, or both, in one of the 

 known. 



His faithful dog, who had closely attended to every movement, now .-er.-.f.-hed among the go 



as to throw up a sort of protecting wall around his helpless master; then mounting on (1 xposed 



body, rolled himself round, and lay on his master's bosom, for which his shag;,'\ coat, proved a 

 seasonable covering, and eventual defence from the severity of the nijit, .luring which the snnxv 

 continued to fall. 



The following morning, a person who was out with his gun, in search of wild fowl, ol^erx im,' 

 something uncommon, ventured to approach it, when he saw it was a dog who had thus protected a 

 man, probably his master ; and, on his coming up, the faithful animal got oil' the body, and after shaking 

 off the accumulated snow, encouraged the sportsman, by significant actions, to come near the side of 



the mail. On wiping away the icy incrustation from the face, Mr. Hawkes was immediately r u'lii-ed. 



but his frame appearing lifeless, aid was sought from the first house on the -kirts of the village, when 

 a pulsation being observed, all possible means were earnestly adopted to promote iveoxery, and 

 restoration happily succeeded. 



Mr. Hawkes now related the story which we have told, mid, in gratitude for his cMiaordinary 

 escape, ordered a silver collar to be made for his sagacious and faithful dog, as a perpetual ivnn-iii- 

 brancer of the preservation of his life. A medical gentleman of the neighbourhood, hearing of tin- 

 circumstances, and finding them so well authenticated, offered Mr. Hawkes ten guineas for the dog. 

 This, however, he refused, for convinced as he was that the animal's warmth, in covering the most vital 

 part of his frame, had kept up the circulation of his blood, during a night of extreme severity, In- 

 declared that " so long as he had a bone to his meat, or a crust to his bread, he would devour it with 

 his dog, to whom he owed his life." 



THE POOULF. 



WE give another remarkable engraving, from l.i'.mlscer's far-famed picture, ' Laying down the I 

 The judge is a Poodle, with a noble wig, not purchased in the neighbourhood of Lincoln's Inn. 

 but naturally grown; and tending, with his robe, which,, though not of ermine, is of spotless white, to 



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