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tions, and that there was no intruder except the 
dog, he began to suspect the real troth which he 
was confirmed in when he saw him wait with great 
deliberation till the visitors were all gone, and then 
pull the bell. The matter was related to the com- 
munity ; and to reward him for his ingenuity, he 
was permitted to ring the bell every day for his 
dinner, when a mess of broken victuals was pur- 
posely served out to him. 
In the year 1760, the following incident illus- 
trative of the sagacity of the dog, occurred near 
Hammersmith : while a man of the name of 
Richardson, a waterman of that place, was sleep- 
ing in his boat, the vessel broke her mooring, and 
was carried by the tide under a West-country 
barge. Fortunately for the man his dog hap- 
pened to be with him ; and the sagacious animal 
awakened him by pawing his face, and pulling the 
collar of his coat, at the instant the boat was 
filling with water ; he seized the opportunity, 
and thus saved himself from otherwise inevitable 
death. 
In the year 1781, a person went to a house in 
Deptford to take lodgings, under pretence that he 
had just arrived from the West Indies ; and after 
having agreed on the terms, said he should send 
his trunk that night, and come himself the next 
day. About nine o'clock in the evening, the trunk 
was brought by two porters, and was carried into 
his bed-room. Just as the family were going to 
bed, their little house-dog, deserting his usual sta- 
tion in the shop, placed himself close to the cham- 
ber-door where the chest was deposited, and kept 
up an incessant barking. The moment the cham- 
ber-door was opened the dog flew to the chest, 
against which it scratched and barked with redou- 
bled fury. They attempted to get the dog out of 
the room, but in vain. Calling in some neigh- 
