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to see what Fetch was after. Before long he heard the 

 furious tinkling of a bell, and soon Fetch appeared, bringing 

 in the perverse cow at a rapid pace, hastening her on by 

 leaping up and catching her ear with his teeth. The dog 

 then lay down, quietly waiting for his supper. 



Knox, in his book of dog stories, relates that a collie' 

 dog was out walking with his master somewhere in Picca- 

 dilly. Scoti was his name, and he wore a handsome collar, 

 with his own name on it and his master's address. 



The gentleman was in the habit of rushing about in 

 hansom cabs, and the dog always witl: him, but on this 

 occasion he was walking and inissed Scoti. He searched 

 for him in vain. The crowd was great, and the trafEc 

 drowned the sound of his whistle, and at last the master 

 returned disconsolately to his suburban home, but hoping 

 Scoti might find his way back. In two hours after his 

 arrival a hansom drove up to the door, and out jumped 

 Scoti. The cabman rang for his fare, and the gentleman 

 asked him how he had found the dog. ' Oh, sir,' said 

 cabby, ' I didn't hail him at all ; he hailed me. I was 

 a-standin' close to St. James's Church, a-looking out for a 

 fare, when in jumps the dog. " Like his impudence," says I. 

 So I shouts through the window, but he wouldn't stir ; so 

 I gets down and tries to pull him out and shows him my 

 whip, but he sits still and looks as much as to say, " Go 

 on, old man." As I seizes him by the collar I reads the 

 name and address. " All right, my fine gentleman," says I ; 

 " I'll drive you where you're a-wanted, I dare say," so I shut 

 the door and my gentleman settles himself with his head 

 just a-lookin' out. I stops at this 'ere gate, then out jumps 

 my passenger, a-clearing the door, and walks in as though 

 he'd been a reg'lar fare.' 



The cabman, it is needless to say, was very liberally paid. 



Messrs. Chambers, in their ' Anecdotes of Dogs,' relate 

 an interesting story of a shepherd's dog which happened 

 fifty years ago among the Grampian mountains. A shep- 

 herd in one of his excursions to his distant flocks took one 

 of his children with him. After traversing the hills the 



