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illustrative at once of the most tender and faithful love, 

 and of the deepest sorrow. After the Battle of Aughrim, 

 the bodies of the Irish were left where they fell, to the birds 

 of the air and the beasts of the field. Among them was an 

 Irish officer, who was killed and stripped in the battle. But 

 his faithful Dog- discovered his remains, and guarded the 

 body day and night ; and though he fed with other dogs on 

 the slain around, yet he would not allow them or anything 

 else to touch the body of his master. When all the dead 

 bodies were consumed, the other dogs departed; but this 

 one used to go in the night to the adjacent villages for food, 

 and presently return to the place where his masters bones 

 only were then left. Thus he continued from July, when 

 the battle was fought, till January following, when one of 

 Colonel Foulk's soldiers, who was quartered in the neigh- 

 bourhood, happening to go near the spot, the Dog, fearing 

 he came to disturb his master's bones, rushed upon the 

 man, who unslung his musket on the instant, and shot the 

 poor animal dead. He expired faithful as he had lived. 



Here we take a respectful leave of our readers. We have 

 sought to lead them, rapidly but not unobservantly, through 

 the wide range of animated being. Our course has been 

 like that of a railway-passenger through a varied and fer- 

 tile country: it is but a small portion of the expanse that 

 falls under his brief and rapid glances, but then this affords 

 him a fair sample of the whole. We have left untouched 

 multitudes of details, not less interesting in themselves, nor 

 less suggestive than those which we have noticed; but 

 these may suffice to be the spokesmen of the vast band 



