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DIVISION I. VERTEBRAL yVNIMALS. — CLASS I. JIAMMALIA. 



AVlicn tlicv liail prnncedcd some distance from tlio spot, ^I. Diiniont sia'- 

 nified to his dog tliat he had lost something, and ordered him to seek it. 

 C'anieiie immediately turned back, while his master and his companion 

 i)ursui'd tlieir walk to the line St. Denis. iNIeanwliilc a traveller, who 

 happened to Ijc just then returning in a small chaise from Vineennes, ]ier- 

 eeived the piece of money, which his horse had kicked from its hiding-jilace ; 

 he alighted, took it up, and drove to his inn in liue Pont-aux-Choux, and 

 Caniche had just reached the spot in search of the lost piece when the 

 stranger picked it up. He followed the chaise, went into the inn, and 

 stuck close to the traveller. Having scented out the coin, which he had 

 been ordered to bring liack, in the pocket of the latter, he leaped up inces- 

 santly at and about him. Tlic gentleman, supposing him to be some dog 

 that had been lost or left behind by his mast(M-, regai-ded his diifercnt 

 movements as marks of fondness; and as the animal was handsome, he 

 determined to keep him. He gave him a good supper, and, on retiring to 

 bed, took him with him to his chamber. Xo sooner had he pulled off his 

 breeches, than they were seized by the dog ; the owner, conceiving he 

 wanti'd til plav willi them, took them away again. The animal began to 

 bark at the door, which the traveller 0[)ened, under the idea that he wanted 

 to go out. (_'aniche instantly snatched up the breeches, and away he flew. 

 The stranger posted after him with his night-cap on, and nearly .•<mis 



Anxiety for the fate of a purse full of double Napoleons, of forty francs 

 each, which was in one of the pockets, gave redoubled velocity to his steps. 

 Caniche ran full speed to his master's house, where the stranger arrived a 

 monu'nt afterwards, iireathless and furious. lie accused the do"; of 

 rolibing him. " Sir," said the master, "my dog is a very faithful creature, 

 and if he has run away with your breeches, it is because you ha\e in them 

 money which does not belong to you." The traveller became still more ex- 

 asperated. " Compose yourself, sir," reji lined the other, smiling: "without 

 doubt thei'e is in your purse a six-livre j)iece, with such and such marks, 

 which you picked up in the Boulevard St. Antoine, and which I tiu-ew 

 down there, with a firm conviction that my dog would bring it bacdv again. 

 This is the cause of the robbery which he has committed on you."' The 

 stranger's rage now yielded to astonishment ; he delivei-ed the six-livre piece 

 to the owner, and could not forbear caressing the dog which had given him 

 so much uneasiness and such an unpleasant chase. 



Mrr.DKKEKS DETECTED P.Y Doijs. — "Since mv arrival in Paris," says 

 a gentleman writing to a friend, " a man has been broken on the wheel, 

 with no other jiroof to condemn him than that of a ^^'ater-spaniel. The 

 circumstances attending it being so very singular and striking, 1 beg leave 



