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they knew that the faithful animal would never allow any 
one to touch either the clothes or the provisions. 
There could hardly be a stronger instance of moral re- 
sponsibility than the one which I shall now relate, which is 
substantially the same as appears in Wood’s ‘“‘ Man and 
Beasts Here and Hereafter.” Living in an unprotected 
part of Scotland was a poor woman, who unexpectedly 
became possessed of a large sum of money. She would 
have taken it to the bank, could she have left the house, but 
lack of bodily health prevented her from so doing. At last 
she asked the advice of a butcher of her acquaintance, telling 
him that she was afraid to live in the house with so much 
money about her. “ Never fear,” said the butcher, “I will 
leave my dog with you, and I'll warrant you that no one will 
dare to enter your house.” Towards the close of the day 
the dog was brought, and chained up close to the place 
where the money was deposited. That very night a robber 
made his way into the house and was proceeding to carry off 
the money, when he was seized by the dog, who held him a 
prisoner until assistance arrived. The thief turned out to be 
the butcher himself, who thought he had made sure of the 
money, but he had not considered that his dog was a better 
moralist than himself, for who would, rather than betray a 
defenceless woman, take her part against his own master. 
Kindly pardoned by the woman, the intending robber made 
his way home, and it is to be hoped that for the future he 
learned a lesson from his own dog and amended the evil of 
his ways. 
Not only does the dog guard the property which is in- 
trusted to its charge, but frequently goes a little further and 
assumes a charge on its own account. When the writer was 
a boy living in the country, where much of the spring and 
summer of the year was spent in working upon a farm, he 
became on very excellent terms with a little bull-terrier, 
named Tip, that belonged toa certain farmer by whom he was 
employed. Upon my first introduction to Tip, I felt a sort of 
