RAVENS. 
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tion in Ravens, is given in the weekly periodical, the 
Saturday Magazine , which, from its application to the 
subject before us, we here repeat. It occurred many years 
ago, at the Red Lion Inn, Hungerford. A gentleman who 
lodged there, thus tells the story : — “ Coming into the inn- 
yard,” says he, “ my chaise ran over and bruised the leg of 
a favourite Newfoundland dog, and while we were examining 
the injury, Ralph, the Raven, looked on also, and was 
evidently making his remarks on what was doing ; for the 
minute my dog was tied up under the manger with my horse, 
Ralph not only visited him, but brought him hones, and 
attended him with particular marks of kindness. I observed 
it to the ostler, who told me that the bird had been brought 
up with a dog, and that the affection between them was 
mutual, and all the neighbourhood had been witnesses of the 
many acts of kindness performed by the one to the other. 
Ralph’s friend, the dog, in course of time, had the misfortune 
to break his leg, and during the long period of his confine- 
ment, the Raven waited on him constantly, carried him his 
provisions, and scarcely ever left him alone. One night, by 
accident, the stable door had been shut, and Ralph had been 
deprived of his friend’s company all night ; hut the ostler 
found, in the morning, the door so pecked away, that had it 
not been opened, in another hour Ralph would have made his 
own entrance. The landlord not only confirmed the ostler’s 
account, hut mentioned many other acts of kindness, shown 
by this bird to all dogs in general, hut more particularly to 
maimed or wounded ones.” 
But, however attentive they may he to dogs, as in this 
case, or to men, as in the preceding one, the following in- 
stance of shrewd cunning shows that they are ready enough, 
when it suits their interest, to trick each other. At the 
Zoological Gardens, in the Regent’s Park, London, two 
Ravens were kept in one large cage or pen ; a visitor passing 
by, threw them two pieces of bun, when one of them imme- 
diately jumped from his perch, and before his comrade could 
reach either of them, he had both secure in his beak, and had 
regained his former position on the perch, holding them until 
