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or fence, with, his four feet collected together and his body 

 almost doubled up. 



Some capital stories, illustrative of the undying affection of 

 the dog for its master, are related iu a little work, " The Sports- 

 man's Cabinet," and from which the following is abbre- 

 viated : — • 



At HaUing, in Kent, there lived a farmer of the name of 

 Hankes, who had a dog that was remarkably attached to him, 

 and followed him aboiit wherever he went. One day he went 

 to Maidstone market, his faithful canine friend, as usual, 

 accompanying him. Having occasion to stop there tiU late in 

 the evening, he at last proceeded on his way home ; but stop- 

 ping at Aylesford, he there drank so immoderately as to be 

 quite intoxicated before he again was on his journey home. It 

 was at a very bad season of the year — the roads, " at the best 

 very dangerous to a drunken man," were covered with slow — 

 and the night was intensely cold. Having passed the village 

 of Newhead in safety, he took his way over Snodland Brook. 

 He had proceeded in safety, till he came to the Willow Walk, 

 within half a mile of the church, when, by a sudden stagger, 

 he quitted the path, and passed over a ditch on his right hand. 

 Not apprehensive he was going astray, he took towards the 

 river, but having a high bank to mount, and being nearly ex- 

 hausted with wandering and the effect of the liquor, he was 

 most fortunately prevented from rising the mound, or he cer- 

 tainly mTist have precipitated himself into the Medway. At 

 this moment, completely overcome, he fell among the snow in 

 one of the coldest nights ever known, turning upon his back, 

 and was soon overpowered with sleep or cold. 



In this situation the farmer must soon have slumbered in 

 death ; he was in a desolate country, where, in all probability, 

 he would never have received any human help. His sole help 

 depended upon his faithful companion, the dog ; nor, in this 

 emergency, did he prove less sagacious than the most intelligent 

 human being could have been under the circumstances. The 

 snow was still faUing heavily, and the man would soon have 

 been buried in it ; but the dog cleared all the snow round the 

 helpless man, so as to form a kind of wall around him. Then, 

 rolling himself up, he lay on his master's bosom, thereby pre- 

 serving the warmth and circulation of the blood; and ss 

 remained all night, doubtless without closing an eye. The 

 next morning a .person happened to be passing that way, in 

 search of wild-fowl, and stumbled across the body of the man— 



