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and manifest contrition, never for once offering any resistance. The 

 child sickened and died ; and the dog, after Watching her faithfully 

 during her illness, lay down upon her grave and died of starvation. 

 This part of the story is not unprecedented. But after the death of 

 the dog, it was ascertained that he had formed an attachment to the 





Fig. 1385.— Hunting-dog, or Wild Dog of South Africa. 



girl while she was attending a kindergarten at some distance from 

 her father's residence, and had left his master to follow her to her 

 home and to the grave. 



An instance is related of a Newfoundland dog which, having 

 been tormented beyond all endurance by a little mastiff, took the 

 little tormenter in his mouth, and swimming some distance out into 

 the sea, dropped it, and then swam back again, leaving the offender 

 to swim alone to shore, but carefully watching it to see that it did 

 not drown, ready to Assist it in case of danger. 



A lady was once recounting to a friend the virtues of her New- 

 foundland dog Lion, which lay on the carpet at her feet ; and when 

 she told how he watched the baby, played with the children, and 

 how high a price she set on him. Lion's tail would go up and -down 



