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streets of Rome by a middle sized dog. This 
dog, besides leading bis master in such a manner 
as to protect him from all danger, learned to dis«> 
tinguish both the streets and houses where he was 
accustomed to receive alms twice or thrice a week. 
Whenever the animal came to any one of these 
streets, with which he was well acquainted, he 
would not leave it till a call had been made at 
every house where his master was usually success- 
ful in his petitions. When the beggar began to 
ask alms, the dog lay down to rest ; but the man 
was no sooner served or refused, than the dog 
rose spontaneously, and without either order or 
sign, proceeded to the other houses, where the 
beggar generally received some gratuity. I ob- 
served/' says he, not without pleasure and sur- 
prize, that when a halfpenny was thrown from a 
window, such was the sagacity and attention of 
this dog, that he went about in quest of it, took 
it from the ground with his mouth, and put it into 
the blind man's hat. Even when bread was 
thrown down, thq animal would not taste it, unless 
he received it from the hand of his master." 
Dogs can be taught to go to market with money, 
to repair to a known shop, and carry home pro- 
visions in safety. Some years since, the person who 
lives at the turnpike house about a mile from 
Stratford on Avon, had trained a dog to go to the 
town for any small articles of grocery, &c. that he 
wanted. A note/mentioniiig the things, was tied 
round the dog's neck, and in the same maimer the 
articles were fastened ; &nd in these errands the 
commodities were always brought safe to his 
master. 
A grocer in Edinburgh had a dog, which, for some 
time, amused and astonished the people in the 
neighbourhood. A man who went through the 
streets ringing a bell and selling penny pies, hap- 
