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when Captain again made his appearance on the jetty, he 

 looked quite crestfallen, bore his tail between his legs, and 

 stuck closely to the heels of his master. That evening passed 

 away quietly, and the next, and the next, and so on for 

 about a week — Captain still bearing the aspect of mourning. 



5. But one evening about eight or ten days after the 

 above encounter, as the major was marching in his usual 

 pompous manner along the jetty, accompanied by his dogs, 

 something attracted his attention in the water, and, walk- 

 ing to the very edge of the jetty, he stood for a moment 

 looking down into the sea. Scarcely had the two bull-dogs 

 taken up their stand beside their master when Captain, 

 seizing the opportunity for which he had so long looked, 

 rushed at his former conqueror, and, catching him by the 

 back of the neck, jumped off the jetty, with his foe in his 

 mouth, down some twenty feet or more into the sea. Once 

 in the water, the power of his enemy was crippled, while 

 Captain was altogether in his own element ; and, easily 

 overcoming all efforts at resistance, he succeeded in reso- 

 lutely keeping the bull-dog's head under water. 



6. The excitement on the shore was, of course, intense. 

 The major shouted, and called out : " My dog ! my beau- 

 tiful dog ! Will no one save him ? " But no one seemed 

 at all inclined to interfere, or to risk his life for the ugly 

 dog. At length the major called out : "I'll give fifty pounds 

 to any one who will save my dog ! " and soon afterward a 

 boat which lay at some little distance pulled up to the res- 

 cue. Even then, however, it was only by striking Captain 

 on the head with the oars that he could be forced to release 

 his victim, which was taken into the boat quite senseless 

 from exhaustion and suffocation, and was with difficulty 

 brought to itself again. Captain, on the other hand, swam 

 in triumph to the shore, amid the plaudits of the specta- 

 tors, who shared, in sympathy at least, his well-earned hon- 

 ors Of revenge. Chambers's Journal. 



