THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. Ill 



before the dog saw his late owner again, when they met 

 quite by chance, the two masters and the dog, on a lonely 

 road between Wandsworth and Kingston. The dog showed 

 every sign of pleasure at meeting his old master, but when 

 they parted faithfully followed the new. Mr. Youatt had 

 not proceeded far, however, when he discovered that the dog 

 had rejoined him and was walking at his side, growling and 

 showing every sign of anger. Looking ahead he discovered 

 two men approaching him stealthily from behind the bushes 

 that skirted the road. " I can scarcely say," says Mr. Youatt, 

 "what I felt; for presently one of the scoundrels emerged 

 from the bushes, not twenty yards from me; but he no 

 sooner saw my companion, and heard his growling, the 

 loudness and depth of which were fearfully increasing, than 

 he retreated, and I saw no more of him or of his associate. 

 My gallant defender accompanied me to the direction-post 

 at the bottom of the hill, and there, with many a mutual 

 and honest greeting, we parted, and he bounded away to 

 overtake his rightful owner. We never met again; but I 

 need not say that I often thought of him with admiration 

 and gratitude." 



The Newfound- ^ number of well authenticated stories, seem 

 land's Sense of to indicate a certain sense of right and wrong 

 Right and Wrong, as characteristic of the more intelligent dogs; 

 of course the idea of right and wrong being in the case of 

 animals as in the case of men, largely a matter of education. 

 The Newfoundland dog belonging to the Rev. J. Simpson of 

 Potterow Church, Edinburgh, already referred to, on one 

 occasion detained a party of friends which had been enter- 

 tained by the servants during their master's absence at church, 

 by stationing himself in front of the hall door and preventing 

 their egress until the rev. gentleman's return. Another New- 

 foundland dog who belonged to a grocer, and who had seen 

 a porter hide money behind a heap of rubbish in a stable, — 

 money which he had surreptitiously abstracted from the till, — 



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