OQg THE COMMON DOG. 



the room, but in vain. Calling in Some neigh- 

 bours, and making tliem eye-witnesses of the cir- 

 cumstance, they began to move the trunk about ; 

 nhen they quickly discovered that it contained 

 something that was alive. Suspicion becoming very 

 strong, they v/ere induced to force it open ; when, 

 to their utter astonishment, they found in it their 

 new lodger, who had been thus conveyed into the 

 house with the intention of robbing it. 



A Dog that had been the favourite of an elderly 

 lady, discovered some time after her death the 

 strongest emotions on the sight of her picture, 

 when it was taken down to be cleaned. Before this 

 instant he had never been observed to notice the 

 painting. Here was evidently a case either of pas- 

 sive remembrance, or of the involuntary renewal of 

 former impressions. — Another Dog, the property of 

 a gentleman that died, was given to a friend in 

 Yorkshire. Several years afterwards, a brother from 

 the West Indies, paid a short visit at the house' 

 where the Dog then was. He was instantly recog- 

 nized, though an entire stranger, in consequence j 

 most probably, of a strong personal likeness. The 

 Dog fawned upon and followed him with great af- 

 fection to every place where he went *. 



During M. Le Vaillant's travels in Africa, he one 

 day missed a favourite little Bitch that he had taken 

 out with him. After much shouting and firing of 

 guns, in order to make her hear, if possible, where 

 the party was, he directed one of his Hottentots to 



* rercival's Father's In«>tructions. 



