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pened one da y to treat this dog with a pie. The 
next time he heard the pieman's bell, he ran to 
him with impetuosity, seized him by the coat, and 
would not suffer him to pass. The pieman, who 
understood what the animal wanted, shewed him a 
penny, and pointed to his master, who stood at the 
street-door and saw what was goingfon. The dog 
immediately supplicated his master by many hum- 
ble gestures and looks. The master put a penny 
into the dog’s mouth, which he instantly delivered 
to the pieman, and received his pie. This traffic 
between the pieman and the grocer's dog continued 
to be daily practised for many months. 
At a convent in France, tw enty paupers were 
served with a dinner at a certain hour every day, 
A dog, belonging to the convent, did not fail to be 
present at this regale, to receive the odds and ends 
•which were now and then thrown down to him. 
The guests, however, were poor and hungry, and 
of course not very wasteful, so that their pensioner 
did little more than scent the feast, of which he 
would fain have partaken. The portions were 
served by a person, at the ringing of a bell, and 
delivered out by means of what, in religious houses, 
is called a tour ; which is a machine like the sec- 
tion of a cask, and, by turning round upon a pivot, 
exhibits whatever is placed on the concave side, 
without discovering the person who moves it. 
One day this dog, who had only received a few 
scraps, waited till the paupers were all gone, took 
the rope in his mouth, and rang the bell. His 
stratagem succeeded. He repeated it the next day 
with the same good fortune. At length the cook, 
finding that twenty-one portions were given out 
instead of twenty, was determined to discover the 
trick, in doing which he had no great difficulty ; 
for lying perdu, and noticing the paupers as they 
came, in great regularity, for their different por- 
