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to coiiimunicatc tlicni to you. A farmer, wlio liad been to receive a sum 

 of money, was waylaid, robbed, aud murdered by two villains. The 

 farmer's dog returned with all speed to the house of the person who had paid 

 the money, and expressed such amazing anxiety that he would follow him, 

 pulling him several times by tlie sleeve and skirt of the coat, that at length 

 the gentleman yielded to his importunity. The dog led him to the field, a 

 little i'rom tiie roadside, where the body lay. From thence the gentleman 

 went to a public house, in order to alarm the country. The moment he 

 entered (as the two villains were there drinking), the dog seized the mur- 

 derer by the throat, and the other made his escape. This man lay in prison 

 three months, during which time they visited him once a week with the 

 Spaniel ; and though they made hina change his clothes with other prison- 

 ers, and always stand in the midst of a crowd, yet did the animal always 

 find him out and fly at him. 



"On the day of trial, when tlic prisoner was at the bar, the dog was let 

 loose in the court-house, and, in the midst of some hundreds he found him 

 out, though dressed entirely in new clothes, and would have torn him to 

 pieces had he been allowed ; in consequence of which he was condemned, 

 and at the place of execution he confessed the fact. Surely so useful, so 

 disinterestedly faithful an animal should not be so barbarously treated as I 

 have often seen them, particularly in London." The above took jilace in 

 llGi. 



Tiie following transpired in France in the reign of Louis VII. 



" Aubri do ^Mondidier, a gentleman of family and fortune, travelling 

 alone tin-ough the Forest of Bondy, was murdered, and buried under a tree. 

 His dog, a Bloodhound, would not quit his master's grave for several days ; 

 till at length, compelled by hunger, he proceeded to the house of an inti- 

 mate friend of the unfortunate Aubri, at Paris, and, by his melancholy 

 howling, seemed desirous of expressing the loss sustained. He repeated 

 his cries, ran to the door, looked back to see if any one followed him ; re- 

 turned to his master's friend, pulled him by the sleeve, and with dumb elo- 

 (pience entreated him to go witli him. The singularity of all these actions 

 of the dog, added to the circumstance of his coming there without his 

 master, wdiose faithful companion he had always been, prompted the com- 

 pany to follow the animal, who conducted tlieni to a tree, where he renewed 

 his howl, scratching the earth with his feet, and significantly entreating 

 them to search the particular spot. Accordingly, on digging, the body of 

 the unfortunate Aubri was found. Some time after, the dog accidentally 

 met the assassin, who is styled, by all the historians that relate this fact, 

 the Chevalier IMacaire ; when instantly seizing him by the throat, he was 

 with great difficulty compelled to quit his victim. In short, whenever the 



