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prompt them to own and indicate their relation. This is 
one of the mod undeniable arguments that wolves, faxes, 
and dogs, are originally the lame fpecies, becaute in coi¬ 
tion they are not only all held together in the fame man¬ 
ner, but we have frequent indances of litters of puppies 
both from the dog and fox, and from the dog and wolf. 
Mr. Brooke, animal-merchant in Holborn, turned a wolf 
to a Pomeranian bitch in heat; the congrefs was immedi¬ 
ate, and as ufual between dog and bitch : die produced 
ten puppies. Mr. Pennant law one of them at Gordon- 
cadle, that had very much the relemblance of a wolf, and 
a!(b much of its nature : being dipped at a weak deer, it 
indantly caught at the animal’s throat and killed it. “I 
could not learn, lays Mr. Pennant, whether this mongrel 
continued its fpecies ; but another of the fame kind did, 
and docked the neighbourhood of Fochabers, in the coun¬ 
ty of Moray, where it was kept, with a multitude of curs 
of a mod wolfilh afpebl. There was lately living a mon¬ 
grel offspring of this kind. It greatly refembled its wolf 
parent. It was di d the property of Sir Woldein Dixey ; 
afterwards of Sir Willoughby* Adon. During day it was 
very tame ; but at night fometimes relapfed into ferocity, 
ft never barked, but father howled ; when it came into 
the fields where Iheep were, it would feign lamenefs, but 
if no one was prefent would indantly attack them. It had 
been l'een in copulation with a bitch, which afterwards 
bad whelps ; the breed was imagined to referable in many 
refpebts the fuppofed fire. It died between the age of five 
fix. The woodman of the manor of Mongewell, in Ox- 
fordlhire, had lately a bitch, which condantly followed 
•him, the offspring of a tame dog-fox by a lhepherd’s cur; 
and Ihc again had puppies by a dog.” 
Many and wonderful are the indances of fagacity, fide¬ 
lity, and attention, and even of forelight, which thefe 
faithful animals have evinced toward their matters. Some 
fuch will doubtlefs occur to the mind of every reader, as 
falling under his own obfervation ; we diall, therefore, on¬ 
ly recite two or three fiich indances, of unqnedionable au¬ 
thenticity.—In the year 1791, a per fan went to a houfe in 
Deptford, to take lodgings, under pretence that he was 
jud arrived from the Wed-Indies ; and, after having a- 
greed on rerms, laid lie fhould fend in his trunk that night, 
and come himlelf the next day. About nine o’clock in the 
evening, the trunk was brought by two porters, and was 
earned into his bed-room. Jud as the family were going to 
bed, their little honfe-dog, deferting his ufual datiou in 
the (hop, placed himlelf clofe to the chamber door where 
the ched was depolited, and kept up an incedant barking. 
The moment the chamber door was opened, the dog dew 
to the died, againd which it barked and fcratched with 
redoubled vehemence and fury. At firft they tried to get 
the dog out of the room: but in. vain. Calling in fame 
neighbours, and making tnemeye-witnedes of the circtim- 
flance, they began to-move the trunk about, when they 
quickly difeovered that it contained'ro-mething alive. Sul- 
picion falling very drong, they were induced to open it, 
when, to their utter altanifimrenr, who-fhould prefent lnm- 
feIf but their new lodger, who had been thus conveyed in, 
£0 rob the houfe ! 
In the dimmer of 1792T, a gentleman went to Portfmouth 
for the benefit of feu-bathing. Me went to Mr. Bradley’s 
machines, to be conduced into the water. Being unac¬ 
quainted with the boldnefs of the Ihore, and no fwimmer, 
he found himlelf, the infant he quitted the machine, nearly 
out of his depth. Fright increafed the peril of h is fit na¬ 
tion, and, unnoticed by-the penfon who attended the ma¬ 
chines,. he had funk for the lad time in the agonies of 
drowning. A large Nev. foun Hand dog, (landing by acci¬ 
dent on the Ihore, and feeing the dill refs-of this (hanger, 
plunged in after him ; and, leizing him by the hair of the 
head, conducted him fafely on Ihore, though it was fame 
time before lie recovered. The gentleman afterwards pur- 
chafed the dog at a high prince, but values him equally 
with the Aim total of his fortune. 
At the A.at of the late earl of Litchfield^, three miles 
from Blenheim, there is a portrait in the dining-room-of 
Sir Henry Lee, by Johndon, with that of a madid’ do^- 
which faved his 1 ife. It feems a fervant had formed the 
defign of allaffinating his mader and robbing the houfe; 
but the night he had fixed on, the dog, which had never 
been much noticed by Sir Henry, for the fird time follow¬ 
ed him up hairs, got under his bed, and could nor be got 
from thence by either mader or man pin the dead of night, 
the lame fervant entered the room to execute his ho'rrid 
defign, but was indantly feized by the dog, and, being, 
lecured, confeded his intentions. There are ten quaint 
lines in one corner of the picture, which conclude thus : 
But in my dog, whereof I made no dore, 
1 find more love than thole I trufted more. 
In December, 1784, a dog was left by a. fmuggling vef- 
fel near Boomer, on the coad of Northumberland. Find¬ 
ing himfelf defc-rted, he began to worry Iheep ; and did fo- 
much damage, that he became the terror of the country 
within a circuit of above twenty miles. We a-re afTured, 
that, when he caught a (beep, he bit a hole in its right 
dde, and, after eating the tallow about the kidneys, left 
it : feveral of them, thus lacerated, were found alive by 
the fhepherds ; and, being taken proper care of, fame of 
them recovered, and afterwards had lambs. From his de¬ 
licacy in this refpect, the dedruefion he made may in fonse 
meafure be conceived ; as it may be fuppofed, that the 
fat of one Iheep in a day would hardly fatisfy his hunger.. 
The farmers were fa much alarmed by his depredations, 
that various means were ufed for his dedrudlion. They 
frequently purfued him with hounds, greyhounds, &c. 
but, when the dogs came up with him, he laid down on. 
his back, as if fupplicating for mercy ; and in that pofi- 
tion they never hurt him : he therefore laid quietly, taking- 
his red till the hunters approached, when he made off,, 
without being follow ed by the hounds, till they were again, 
excited to the purfuit, which always terminated unluc- 
cefsfully. And it is worthy of notice, that he was one day 
purfued from Howjck to upwards of thirty miles chdance;; 
but returned thither, and killed Iheep the fame evening. 
Dis condant reiidence, during the day, was upon a rock, 
on the Heugh-hill, near Howick, where he had a view of 
four roads that approached it; and, in March, 1785, after 
many fruitlefs attempts, he was at lad foot there. 
During a fevere dorm, in the winter of 178-9, a (hip, be¬ 
longing to Newcadle, was lod near Yarmouth ; and a New¬ 
foundland dog alone elcaped to diore, bringing in his mouth 
the captain’s pocket-bock. He landed amidd a number 
of people, feveral of whom in vain endeavoured to take it 
from him. The fugacious animal, as if lenlible of the- 
importance of the charge, which in all-probability was de¬ 
livered him by his perilhing mader, at length leapt fawn-- 
ingly againd the bread of a man, who had attr-aided his 
notice among the crowd, and delivered the book to him. 
The dog immediately returned to the place where he hath 
landed, and watched with great attention for every, thing 
that came from the. wrecked veflel, feizing them, and en¬ 
deavouring to bring them to land. At another time, a 
gentleman walking by the fide of the river Tyne, and ob- 
ferving, on the oppofite fide, a child fall into the water,, 
gave notice to his dog, which immediately jumped in, 
fwam over, and, catching hold of the child, brought it 
lafe to land. 
The fagacity and attachment of this animal in directing- 
the Heps of the blind man are not the lead worthy of no¬ 
tice. There are few who have not feen’an unfortunate- 
object of this defeription, led by his dog, through the va>- 
rious pafi’ages of a populous town, to the accuffamed place 
where lie (its to fupplicat-e the contributions of palfengers. 
It may fometimes be feen to Hop at particular houfes, to- 
receive the morfel from the hand of charity, or pick from, 
the ground the money thrown out to relieve its miferable- 
owner. When the day is palled, it condmAs him home- 
again ; and gratefully receives, as the reward of its ler- 
vicesj the fcanty pittance which poverty and vvretchednefs- 
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