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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 ho 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 master’s 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 hrs master’s bones, rushed upon the 
man, who unslung his musket on the instant, and shot the 
poor animal dead. Ho expired faithful as he had lived. 
Here we take a respectful leave of our readers. We have 
sought to lead them, rapidly but not uuobscrvautly, 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 
