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"How many times has §h.e risen?" 

 "Twice." 



The gentleman di-ew a long breath and said to his dog, in 

 a low yoice, "Look out!" 



And Tiger did look out, with wild, flashing eyes and limbs 

 that trembled Math anxiety. What a moment that was! 

 Every one else was passive ; every other attempt was laid 

 aside, and all stood in mute expectation, those who were 

 near enough watching for the rising of the child, and 

 those who could not see the water keeping their eyes fixed 

 upon Tiger. In an instant a cry was raised, as a golden- 

 tressed head was seen to emerge from the water. The noble 

 dog had seen her firet though, and ere the warning cry reach- 

 ed his ears, he had dashed from the boat with wonderful 

 activity and was swimming toward the little sufferer as 

 though he knew that life and death depended on his efforts. 



His master marked his progress anxiously. His face was 

 pale as death, and it was only by rigidly compressing them that 

 he could control the nervous quivering of his lips. ' 'He has her !' 

 he exclaimed, as Tiger rose to the surface after a long dive, 

 holding little Mabel by the back of her hair in such a manner 

 that her face was out of water. "He has her and she is saved." 

 Down with the steps, and on them stood a couple of active 

 sailors, encouraging the brave dog by shouts and gestures, 

 and ready to receive his precious burthen when he should 

 approach them. Slowly he came on, wistfully eyeing the 

 steps, and now and then gancing up at his master, who was 

 leaning over the side and encouraging him with his well 

 known voice. 



"Here you are!" cried one of the sailors, seizing the little 

 girl. She was handed from one to another, and at last depos- 

 ited in the arms of an active looking gentleman, whom every- 

 body seemed instinctively to recognize as a surgeon, and by 

 him carried below. 



"Now, come up, there's a brave fellow !" said a sailor, re- 



treatiog to make way for Tiger to chmb upon the steps. But 

 the poor creature whined piteously, and after one or two fruit- 

 less struggles to raise himself out of the water, remained quite 

 quiet. "Help him! help him! he is exhausted!" cried his 

 master, fighting his way through the crowd to go to the rescue 

 of his brave favorite. By the time, however, that he had 

 reached the top of the ladder the sailors had perceived the 

 condition of the dog, and with some difiiculty dragged him 

 from the water. With their assistance he crawled feebly up, 

 then languidly licked his master's hand and stretched himself 

 on the deck, it would be difficult to say which received the 

 most attention— the httle gu-1 under the bauds of the surgeon, 

 and all the women, who had squeezed themselves into the 

 cabin under the firm conviction that they were exceedingly 

 useful, or the noble dog from the kind but rough attention of 

 the steamer's men, under the supervision of his master. 



Both the invalids were soon convalescent, and Tiger was 

 sitting up receiving with quiet dignity the caresses of his 

 friends, when Mabel's mother came running up-stairs; and 

 throwing herself on her knees before him and clasping him 

 aflfectionately in her arms, laid her cheek upon his. rough head 

 and wept. 



"He's a dirty animal," said the gentleman, who could not 

 forget her former slighting remark. "He'll make your dress 

 in such a state! besides, he may be mad!" 



She cast her eyes with an expression of meek reproach 

 (they were very fine eyes, and I think he felt it, for his features 

 softened immediately). "Oh! pray, pray, give him to me I" 

 she began. 



"Give Tiger to you!" he repeated, in derision. "Why, what 

 would you do with him? I'll tell you, you'd pet and pamper 

 the poor beast till he was eaten up with disease, and as nervous 

 as a fine lady. No, no ; you'd better give little Mabel to me. 

 Tiger and I could take much more care of her than you can." 



"Perhaps so, sir," she rephed, with the gentle manner that 



had come over her since the accident, "but stilll could not 

 spare her. She is my only child, and I am a widow." 



"I must go," muttered the gentleman to himself. "Whew! 

 a widow! Has not the immortal Weller assured us that one 

 widow is equal to twenty-five ordinary women? It's not safe, 

 morally safe, to be in the same boat with her." He walked 

 away. ' But who may wrestle against fate? When the boat 

 returned to London Bridge, I saw him carrying Mabel ashore, 

 with the pretty widow leaning on his arm.— Chriss Willson in 

 Detroit Free Press. 



Capt. W. SchaeflEer starts to day for a fish and shoot at 

 Creve Coeur, but leaves his dog at home. A few days since 

 he and Judge Manning patronized that water, taking along an 

 animal so intelligent that it was to show them quail, squirrel 

 and the best croppie holes as well. They also (at starting) 

 took a rabbit pie and no end of a lunch, the dog also (at his 

 convenience) took the rabbit pie and made an end of the 

 entire lunch. On their return, a hungered, to their tem- 

 porary store-room, the dog looked fat and well-liking, but 

 sad, a mood the fishermen attributed to its regret that it had 

 no use for whiskey or cigars, it had left nothing else and 

 matters grew nearly serious enough to threaten a meal on the 

 dog or a repetition of the experience of the survivor of the 

 Nancy brig during their long hungry wait for the train.— 5f. 

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