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mount a horse and return some distance in search of 

 her. In about four hours the man appeared witli 

 her on his saddle, bringing with him at the same 

 time a chair and a basket that had been unknow- 

 ingly dropped from one of the waggons. The 

 Bitch was found at the distance of about two leagues, 

 lying in the road, and watching the lost chair and 

 basket ; and had the man been unsuccessful in his 

 pursuit, she must unavoidably either have perished 

 with hunger, or fallen a prey to some of the wild 

 beasts, with which these plains abound *. 



Mr. C. Hughes, a son of Tliespis, had a wig 

 which generally hung on a peg in one of his rooms. 

 He one day lent the wig to a brother player, and 

 some time after called on him. Mr. Hughes had 

 his Dog with him, and the man happened to have 

 the borrowed wig on his head. IMr. Hughes stayed 

 a little while with his friend; but^ when he left him, 

 the Dog remained behind : for some time he stood, 

 looking full in the man's face ; then making a sud- 

 den spring, leaped on his shoulders, seized the wig, 

 and ran off with it as fast as he could ; and, when 

 he reached home, he endeavoured by jumping to 

 hang it up in its uirual place. — The same Dog was 

 one afternoon passing through a held in the skirts of 

 Dartmouth, where a washer woman had hung out 

 her linen to dry. He stopped and surveyed one 

 particular shirt with attention ; then seizing it, he 

 dragged it away through the dirt to his master, 

 whose shirt it provetl to be '\-. 



* Le \'a:l!a!\t, vol. i. j). ','01. t Lite ul" James Lackington. 



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