36 BRONTE.

it into his kennel, where he finished his meal in peace, while
the cocks and hens stood watching outside, afraid to enter.

Depend on it, you will often find better means of escaping
from worries than that of punishing your tormentors. If you
cannot otherwise quiet them, remove the cause of dispute out
of sight.

 

BRONTE.

AN Edinburgh gentleman, now deceased, whose tenderness
towards the lower animals showed itself in many ways,
was in the habit, for many years, of going down to the
sea-coast to bathe. This he did early in the mornings,
accompanied by his faithful companion Bronté. They tra-
velled together by train to the Chain Pier at Trinity.

Once, when the master was away from home, Bronté,
unwilling to miss his bath, trotted off alone at the usual early
hour for the Waverley Station, took the train, and went off to
the beach in search of him.

The fact only became known when an account was pre-
sented from the railway company for Bronté’s travelling ex-
penses. He and his master were well known to the railway
people, and so Master Bronté, as it proved, regularly journeyed
for his morning bath in a first-class carriage.

 

A WISE ST. BERNARD.

In the district of Samland, near Kénigsberg, a dog has just
(August 1892) saved the lives of the two children of a landed