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every reader. No animal is so entirely ungifted as not to 
have a consciousness of the circumstances and place in which 
it has previously found food and shelter, or has been attended 
to ; and in the entire range of the operation of the various 
faculties, from the lowest glimmering to their most perfect 
development, nature has so excellently adapted them to each 
want and mode of life, and has so beautifully counter- 
balanced them, that in the whole scheme of the creation no 
greater harmony can be found. 
“This power of memory is the source of obedience, dis- 
cipline, habit, and intelligence in the animal, and enables 
man to direct the energies he has controlled. The lesson 
once taught, the training and submission once enforced, are 
never forgotten, and even produce new and astonishing 
proofs and combinations of intelligence. 
“Mr. Brockedon, in his ‘Journal of Excursions in the 
Alps , 5 says: ‘In these valleys, the early hour of retirement 
placed us in the difficult situation of fighting our way to the 
inn-door at Lanslebourg, against a magnificent Savoyard dog, 
who barked and howled defiance at our attempts, for which he 
stood some chance of being shot. At length, however, a 
man hearing our threats, popped his head out of a window, 
and entreated our forbearance. We were soon admitted, and 
refreshments amply provided. I had heard a story of a duel 
fought here, from Mr. N., in which he was a principal, about 
a dog, and, upon inquiry, learnt that this w 7 as the same ani- 
mal. A party of four young officers, returning from Genoa, 
stopped here. Mr. N. had brought with him a beautiful little 
pet dog, which had been presented to him by a lady on his 
leaving Genoa. Struck by the appearance of the fine dog at 
the inn, one of the officers bought it. He w 7 as fairly informed 
that the dog had been already sold to an Englishman, w* ho had 
taken it as far as Lyons, where the dog escaped, and returned 
(tw r o hundred miles) to Lanslebourg. The officer who made 
the purchase, intended to fasten it in the same place 
with the little dog; this Mr. N. objected to, wffien his 
brother officer made some offensive allusions to the lady 
from whom the pet had been received. An apology was 
demanded, and refused. Swmrds w 7 ere instantly drawn ; they 
fought in the room. Mr. N. wounded and disarmed his 
antagonist; an apology for the injurious reflections followed, 
and the party proceeded on their way to England, punished 
by having the painful duty to perform all the way of nursing 
their wounded companion. The dog, however, was taken 
and carried safely as far as Paris, where he again escaped, 
and returned home (five hundred miles!). I was now T 
