64 DOGS 



surgery, where he had been very kindly treated. The dog 

 is a black and white mongrel, and has been named ' Jack,' 

 and he stays at home and minds his business. 



A rough-haired terrier named Sting had a horror of 

 steam trams, but the first time he was muzzled he was so 

 disgusted with life under such conditions that he ran off 

 and laid himself in front of an approaching steam tram, 

 evidently for the purpose of committing suicide ; but his 

 life was saved by a lady, at the risk of her own, stepping 

 over the rails and picking him up. The same terrier was 

 taken in a cab by his master, and the traffic seemed to 

 interest him very much ; but, being a cold day, the cab 

 windows were drawn up, and the moisture condensed so 

 thickly on the glass that the dog was unable to see what 

 was passing in the street. Without one word being said 

 to him he set to work to clear away the moisture with his 

 tongue, and then looked through the space. Hearing a 

 noise on the other side of the street, he crossed the cab 

 and repeated the operation by licking the moisture from 

 the opposite pane of glass, in order to ascertain the cause 

 of the noise. 



In 1854 a poor man was buried in the old cemetery' of 

 Greyfriars, in Edinburgh. Amongst the numerous friends 

 who followed the funeral was the dead man's dog, whose 

 attitude indicated his deep grief. On the following day 

 the cemetery gardener found the dog asleep on his master's 

 grave, and drove him away ; but every morning he found 

 him in the same place. At length the gardener took pity 

 on him and gave him food, and Bob (which was his name) 

 having won such a friend, never left his post again. A 

 sergeant of Engineers provided his food, and at twelve 

 o'clock, when the citadel cannon was fired. Bob used to 

 rush off to his dinner. This lasted ten years. When a tax 

 was put on dogs, twenty people who had witnessed his 

 devoted conduct, proposed joining together to pay the 

 money ; but the Lord Provost, hearing of the fact, exempted 

 the dog from taxation, and made him a present of a splendid 

 collar, on which was written an explanatory inscription. 



