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before the dog saw his late owner again, when they met
quite by chance, the two masters and the dog, on a lonely
road between Wandsworth and Kingston. The dog showed
every sign of pleasure at meeting his old master, but when
they parted faithfully followed the new. Mr. Youatt had
not proceeded far, however, when he discovered that the dog
had rejoined him and was walking at his side, growling and
showing every sign of anger. Looking ahead he discovered
two men approaching him stealthily from behind the bushes
that skirted the road. “I can scarcely say,” says Mr. Youatt,
“what I felt; for presently one of the scoundrels emerged
from the bushes, not twenty yards from me; but he no
sooner saw my companion, and heard his growling, the
loudness and depth of which were fearfully increasing, than
he retreated, and I saw no more of him or of his associate.
My gallant defender accompanied me to the direction-post
at the bottom of the hill, and there, with many a mutual
and honest greeting, we parted, and he bounded away to
overtake his rightful owner. We never met again; but I
need not say that I often thought of him with admiration
and gratitude.”

The Newfound. 4 number of well authenticated stories, seem
land’s Sense of to indicate a certain sense of right and wrong
Right and Wrong. ag characteristic of the more intelligent dogs;
of course the idea of right and wrong being in the case of
animals as in the case of men, largely a matter of education.
The Newfoundland dog belonging to the Rev. J. Simpson of
Potterow Church, Edinburgh, already referred to, on one
occasion detained a party of friends which had been enter-
tained by the servants during their master’s absence at church,
by stationing himself in front of the hall door and preventing
their egress until the rev. gentleman’s return. Another New-
foundland dog who belonged to a grocer, and who had seen
a porter hide money behind a heap of rubbish in a stable,—
money which he had surreptitiously abstracted from the till, -—