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INSESSORES. 
some years ago, at the Red Lion Inn, Hnngerford, 
England. A gentleman who lodged there coming 
into the yard with his chaise, accidentally ran over 
and bruised the leg of a favorite Newfoundland dog, 
and while the injury was being examined, Ralph, the 
Raven, looked on also, and was evidently making his 
remarks on what was doing; for the minute the dog 
was tied up under the manger with the horse, Ralph 
not only visited him, but brought him bones and 
showed him many other attentions. The gentleman 
making some remarks to the ostler on the subject, he 
was informed that the bird had been brought up wdth 
a dog, and that the affection between them was mu- 
tual, and all the neighborhood had been witnesses to 
the many acts of kindness performed the one to the 
other. The dog in course of time had the misfortune 
to break his leg, and during the long period of his 
confinement 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; but the ostler found, in 
the morning, the door so picked away, that had it 
not been opened, in another hour Ralph would have 
made his own entrance.* 
We will not say that it was because of this natu- 
ral propensity of the Raven to form close and warm 
attachments, that it was chosen by the Almighty to 
carry food to the Prophet Elijah, during his solitary 
* Stanley’s “ Familiar History of Birds.” 
