20 THE SHEPHERDS DOG AND THE LOST CHILD. had hoped thus to remove them all to her former much-loved home. The third puppy was never found. The one that died had perished by cold, it being the winter season. THE SHEPHERD’S DOG AND THE LOST CHILD. I am sorry that I do not know the name of a certain shepherd’s dog, which deserves to be printed in letters of gold. His master, who had charge of a flock which fed among the Scottish hills, set out from home one day with his little boy, scarcely more than four years old. The children of