THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

   
 

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{nner this cap-
tion, I have, at
different times,
recorded a great
many anecdotes
for my little
friends; but there are scores of them
left yet ; and as these stories seem to
suit my readers pretty generally, I will
still continue occasionally to serve up 4
dish of them in the CABINET.

Dogs are particularly useful in coun-
tries where a great many sheep are
pastured. In Scotland, the shepherds’
dogs are trained to be of great service
to their masters. A great portion of
the country is broken up into hills and
valleys, and it would be very difficult
for those who have a large flock of sheep
in charge, to keep them from straying
away and being lost, if it were not for
the constant attention of the dogs.
Some of these intelligent dogs are re-
presented in the engraving. They are
taught to understand their business per-
fectly. If a sheep strays away a little
too far from the main body of the flock,
the dog who is on the watch at the time
runs after her, and brings her back.
Dogs of this particular species, when
sent after a sheep that had wandered
away so far as to be unable to find her
way back again, and had been gone a
whole day; have frequently been suc-
cessful, without any assistance, in bring-
ing the missing one back to the flock.

A little girl writes us from Boston,

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Stories abo

ut Dogs.

and sends a good story of a dog living
in a place not far from that city.
«There was a man in a town which
shall be nameless,” she says, “ who was
usually designated ‘Old T ” This
man had a large Newfoundland dog,
which was very much attached to him.
The man was tall and strong, and very
much feared in the place where he lived.*
Nobody, it seemed to the neighbors,
loved him, except his dog and his wife.
At length, he died. Some of the peo-
ple residing in the neighborhood came
‘n to watch with the corpse, before it
was buried. The dog, finding out this
fact by some means, bounded into the
room through the window, and would
have done serious mischief to these
neighbors, if it had not been for the
timely interference of the mistress, who
sent the dog and the watchers away at
the same time. After Old T was
buried, this dog remained watching for

 

 

several nights upon the grave.”

A gentleman residing at Gosport, in
England, regularly visited Portsmouth,
accompanied by his dog. It happened
one day, that this dog lost his master,
and after looking for him awhile, seemed
to have satisfied himself that he had
passed over in the ferry boat without
him, So he went, as fast as he could
run, to the store of a bookseller where
his master was acquainted, and by va-
rious motions and expressions of voice
and countenance, succeeded in making
the man understand his misfortune.
“What!” exclaimed the bookseller,
“you have lost your master, have
you? Well here is a penny for your
fare across the ferry.” The dog instant-