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must not go near him then, and took her into the 

 stables to see the horses. Whilst I was talking to 

 the coachman, she slipped out, and on going to look 

 for her, to my horror I saw her just going up to the 

 dog who was still feeding. I called out to her to 

 come back, but the coachman said, " He won't hurt 

 her, sir ; he will let a child do anything almost 

 to him." True enough — the child went up and 

 patted him, and the dog first looked up, gave a wag 

 with his tail and went on feeding. When he was 

 loosed afterwards, lie came to where the child and 

 myself were sitting, licked her hands, and then came 

 and put his great head on my knee and looked up 

 at me, as much as to say, " Could not you trust me 

 with a child." I then remembered I had been told 

 he would never touch a child, but there was one 

 very curious point connected with this, which was 

 that he would never touch food of any sort, how- 

 ever fond he was of it, from the hands of a child. 

 This he had doubtless been taught, so that poisoned 

 or prepared food might not be given him by their 

 means. 



I hardly ever saw a dog who had such very ex- 

 pressive eyes. Once when out with me he was 

 attacked and bitten in the leg by a mastiff ; an ill- 

 conditioned brute that was always flying at him. 

 Now Wallace was most good-tempered and hardly 



