THE DOG. 
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'^ofortunate poodle, and killed him before he 
be rescued from their fury. In this 
observes the narrator, the injuries of the 
young dog must have been made known to 
old companion, a plan of revenge concert- 
^ &nd that plan formed and executed with 
promptitude. 
officer of the 44th regiment, who had 
Occasion, when in Paris, to pass one of the 
^mges across the Seine, had his boots, which 
^ been previously well polished, covered 
^'th dirt by a poodle-dog rubbing against 
^nem. He went in consequence to a shoe- 
black 
stationed on the bridge, and had them 
®^ined. The same circumstance having oc- 
red more than once, his curiosity was ex- 
observed the dog. He saw him 
^ bimself in the mud of the river, and then 
ch for a person in well-polished boots, 
b^-iftst which he contrived to rub himself, 
ing that the shoe-black was the owner of 
