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vestigation relative to the manner in which the policemaji came 

 by his death at Kingstown, a little active and inquisitiTe dog, 

 of the Labrador breed, was seen from time to time during each 

 day running in and out of the room, as if he took a personal 

 interest in the inquiry. The dog was admired, and a gentle- 

 man in the police establishment was asked to whom it be- 

 longed. ' Oh,' said he, ' don't you know him ? We thought 

 every one knew Peeler, the dog of the poUce.' The gentleman 

 then proceeded to give the interrogator the history of this sin- 

 gular dog. It appeared from the story, that a few years ago 

 poor little Peeler tempted the canine appetite of a Mount St. 

 Bernard, or Newfoundland dog, and was in peril of being 

 swallowed up by him for a luncheon, when a policeman inter- 

 posed, and, with a blow of his baton, levelled the assailant and 

 rescued the assailed. From that time. Peeler has united his 

 fortunes with those of the police : wherever they go, he fol- 

 lows ; whether pacing with measured tread the tedious ' beat,' 

 or engaged in the energetic duty of arresting a disturber of the 

 public peace. He is a self-constituted general superintendent 

 of the police, visiting station after station, and, after he has 

 made his observations in one district, wending his way to the 

 next. He is frequently seen to enter a third-class carriage at 

 the Kingstown Eailway, get out at Black Rock, visit the police- 

 station there, continue his tour of inspection to Booterstown, 

 reach there in time for the train as before, and go on to Dublin 

 to take a peep at the 'metropolitans;' and having satisfied 

 himself that ' all is right,' return by an early evening train to 

 Kingstown. He sometimes takes a dislike to an individual, 

 and shuns him as anxiously as he wags his tail at the approach, 

 and frisks about the feet, of another for whom he has a regard. 

 There is one man in the force for whom he has this antipathy ; 

 and a day or two ago, seeing him in ' the train,' he left the 

 carriage and waited for the next, preferring a delay of half an 

 hour to such company ; and when the bell rang, with the 

 eagerness with which protracted joy is sought, he ran to his 

 accustomed seat in ' the third class.' His partiality for the 

 police is extraordinary ; wherever he sees a man in the garb of 

 a constable, he expresses his pleasure by walking near him, 

 rubbing against and dancing abont him; nor does he forget 

 him in death, for he was at his post in the funeral of Daly, the 

 policeman who was killed in Kingstown. He is able to recog- 

 nize a few in plain clothes, but they must have been old friends 

 of his. Wherever he goes he gets a orast, a piece of meat, a pat 



