12 THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG AND THE MARKED SHILLING,

- before the dog could get hold of it. Still wondering what
the dog wanted, he mounted his horse again, and with his
friend rode rapidly on to an inn nearly twenty miles off,
where they meant to pass the night.

But the dog had caught sight of the shilling as the
stranger put it in
his pocket, and he
followed them
closely, and noted
the sleeping - room
into which they
were shown. He
must have watched
them take off their
clothes, and have
seen the man who
had the shilling
hang his trousers
over the back ofa
chair. He waited
till the men were
fast asleep, and as
he could not take
the shilling out
of the pocket, he
seized the trousers in his mouth and bounded out of the
window, nor stopped till he reached his home. His master
was awakened early in the morning by hearing the dog

 

barking and scratching at his door. He was greatly surprised
to find what he had brought, and more so to discover not