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One morning shortly after Shark came, I 
found two big boys prisoners in a cherry tree, 
and the dog guarding them at the foot of the 
tree. They were much alarmed, and crying bit- 
terly. I called the dog off and allowed them to 
go, and neither they nor their companions ever 
returned. We had some horses at pasture in a 
field out of sight of the house, and one night our 
hired man heard Shark barking furiously in the 
pasture, and going to the spot, he found the dog 
had driven the horses into a fence corner and 
was sitting in front of them calling for help. 
Some horses having been stolen about that time 
in our neighborhood, I concluded that a horse 
thief had been in my pasture, and had been 
driven off by the dog. 
Shark formed a_ strong attachment to a 
younger brother of mine, about six or eight 
years old; he attended the boy to school in the 
morning and brought him home at night, and 
once, when a neighbor’s cat killed some rabbits 
belonging to the boy, Shark, although usually on 
good terms with cats, pursued and killed this 
depredator, and then carried the body to the 
house where she belonged, and laid it on the 
doorstep. 
The dog evidently thought he was doing right, 
and did not choose to conceal his action; but the 
owner of poor puss was very angry until it was 
explained to her, that nothing but justice had 
been done. 
All this faithful vigilance made the dog some 
enemies, and one day he came home wounded 
in the head by a charge of shot, which endan- 
gered his eyes. We placed him under the care 
of an oculist, who saved the dog’s sight, but 
after this he was very much afraid of firearms, 
and the sight of a gun or the report of one would 
drive him in the house for refuge. He also 
seemed to associate the sound of guns with 
thunder storm. Except these things, he feared 
nothing, and would tackle the biggest dog in the 
town, who offered him an insult. Of small dogs 
he took no notice, but was always ready to fight* 
a big bully, and I never saw him whipped, 
though there was one bulldog in the village with 
which Shark had many drawn battles, and after 
a while a sort of armed neutrality prevailed be- 
tween them, attended with many protests and 
growls. 
Shark was a fine swimmer and loved the water, 
but owing to gunshyness was useless as a duck- 
ing doe. He would attend me when I bathed 
and sailed, and I have seen him swim after my 
boat for half a mile. 
In our neighborhood were two churches, one 
of the Calvinistic persuasion, or, as they call it 
in New England, Orthodox; the other Unitarian. 
We had pews in each house, and attended each 
in turn, and both reverend doctors often visited 
us. Shark would follow the carriage on Sunday 
to the Unitarian Church, but would not enter. 
He would, however, always come to our pew in 
the Orthodox Church, and sleep through the ser- 
vice in a decorous manner. It was the habit 
of certain old women in this church, when any 
good, strong, Calvinistic doctrines were given 
from the pulpit, to signify their approbation by 
sighs and groans. Curiously enough, Shark 
would do the same. When the old women around 
him sighed and groaned, his sighs and groans 
were responsive. 
So he gained the name of an Orthodox dog. 
This conduct puzzled me much, but I finally 
accounted for it in this way: The Unitarian di- 
vine disliked and feared dogs, and when he ap- 
proached our house it was with hesitation. This 
Shark noticed, and after his doggish kind, sus- 
pected and disliked the worthy man, and seeing 
him in his church, refused to enter it or listen to 
his preaching. 
The Orthodox doctor took little or no notice 
of the dog, and came boldly in at the gate. So 
Shark excepted his visits, and had no objection 
to his person or doctrines. 
The intelligence displayed by this dog was so 
great, that since knowing him I have believed 
that dogs have reasoning powers, and very pos- 
sibly immortal souls. The poet tells us that the 
poor Indian 
“thinks, translated to a purer sky, 
His faithful dog shall bear his company.” 
