ons from captivity, 152--a swimming-wager
amusingly lost by a dog's care, 153--the dog as postman,
153--swims for ten hours in a tempestuous sea, 153--saves his dead
master's pocket-book, 154--Lord Grenville's lines on the,
155--Newfoundland dog ducks his aggressor, 157--carries a rope to
the shore, 158--saves an ungrateful master, 158--guardian of a
lady's honour, 160--anecdotes of Mr. M'Intyre's dog Dandie,
160-5--a Newfoundland causes the detection of a dishonest porter,
165--saves twelve persons from drowning, 166--watches over his
drunken master, 167--his humanity occasions a disturbance at
Woolwich Theatre, 167--carries a lanthorn before his master,
168--saves the lives of all on board the Durham Packet,
170--drowns a pet lamb out of jealousy, 171--rescues a canary
which had flown into the sea, 171--saves his old master from
robbers, 173--St. John's and Labrador dogs, 176--long remembrance
of injuries, 177--discovers a poacher, 178--discretion and
revenge, 178--returns from Berwick to London, 179--the Romans had
some dog of the same kind, 179--liberates a man who had fallen
into a gravel-pit, 180--Boatswain provides his mistress a dinner,
181--a trespasser detained, 181--Victor at the Battle of
Copenhagen, 182--a Newfoundland dog retrieves on the ice,
182--fetches a coat from the tailor's, 183--lines by Lord Eldon,
184.
THE COLLEY OR SHEPHERD'S DOG.
Saves the life of Mr. Satterthwaite, 186--the Ettrick Shepherd's
dog, Sirrah, collects a scattered flock at midnight, 188--Hector,
189--points the cat, 191--has an ear for music, 194--hears where
his master is going, and precedes him, 196--a wonderful sheep-dog,
199--a bitch having pupped deposits her young in the hills, and
afterwards fetches them home, 201--cunning of sheep-stealing dogs,
202-5--a sheep-dog dies of starvation whilst tending his charge,
206--discrimination of a sheep-dog, 207--a sheep-dog remembers all
the turnings of a road, 208--follows a young woman who had
borrowed his mistress's cloak, 211--Drummer saves a cow,
212--Caesar rescues his master from an avalanche, 213--a sheep-dog
snatches away a beggar's stick, 214--a colley conducts the flock
whilst his master is drinking, 214--dishonesty punished, 215--a
sporting colley, 216--a colley buries her drowned offspring,
217--brings assistance to her h
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