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hospital amongst hundreds of his fellows. Many days afterwards, 
a little dog had found its way, no one knew how, into the place, 
and amongst the wounded, the dying, and the dead, had searched 
out his early friend. The fainting boy was found by the attendants 
with the dog beside him licking his hands. The youth soon 
breathed his last, and a kind comrade took charge of the dog : but 
the animal would take no food, pined away, and shortly died. And 
a thousand other examples might be given of ah affection in this 
creature unaltered by changes of fortune, and enduring to the last*.” 
Who has not heard of the unfortunate pilgrim of Helvellyn, 
and of his faithful dog — faithful even in death — immortalized alike 
by the Bard of Chivalry and the Laurel-honouring Laureate! We 
entirely concur with Mr. Youatt in his opinion, that while poverty 
may drive from a cold hearth many a companion of our happier 
hours, it was never known to diminish the love of one canine 
attendant. 
FEEDING HORSES AND HOUNDS. 
By Cecil. 
[From the Farmer’s Magazine.] 
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The high price of horse corn during the past year has been a 
fruitful stimulus to justify every endeavour to adopt, if possible, a 
cheaper substitute, or a means of introducing economy. Thorough- 
ly established, however, is the fact, that nothing has hitherto been 
discovered of comparatively equal value with a due proportion of 
oats and hay for the production and preservation of condition in the 
equine tribe. 
Whenever new theories are proposed, it becomes necessary to 
advance some evidence, at least, bordering upon practice, to recom- 
mend their utility ; but when a system has been pursued for years, 
and with the utmost success, it appears to be a matter of surprise 
that good examples should not be universally adopted. By the 
simple process of crushing or bruising oats before they are used as 
horse corn the saving is immense ; and although the plan has been 
carried on by many, and is still persevered in by most, if not all of 
those who ever commenced it, it is by no means universal. 
Fifteen years ago, when coach travelling was in its zenith, and 
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