Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-28


if he could, alt is all right now"
Another tale is given Of a sheep-dog:-
1.-THE owner of a sheep.dog having been
hanged some years ago for sheep-stealing, the
following fact was authenticated by evidence
Of his trial When the man intended TO steal
any sheep he did not do it himself, but de-
tached his dog to perform the business
With this view, under the pretence of look
ing at the sheep with an intention to purchase
them, he went through the flock with the dog
at his heel, whom he secretly gave a signal,
SO as TO let him know the individuals he wan
ted, TO the number Of ten or twenty out of a
flock Of some hundreds. He then went away
and at the distance of several miles, sent
back the dog by himself in the nighttime,
who picked out the individual sheep that had
heen pointed out TO him, separated them from
the flock, and drove them before him by him
self, till he overlook his master, to whom he
relinqu ished them"
The editor of the Literary Gazette adds The
following:
"These creatures do such acts on the
Scottish mountains, in regard to the guidance
and direction Of locks, that they are utterly
incredible without being seen, and nearly in
credible when they are. The waving of a
SUbpntIu y dIW dt q ulSlduCt lat DtlOlu VIC
sound of his voice, is sufficient 10 regulate all
their movements; and you may see them a
mile or two miles off, on tops of hills, obey
ing every gesture Of their master, pointing
out various and complex operations. we
saw a colley once in Perthshire taking a flock
of sheep to Falkirk Tryst, or Fair and as the
road was dusty, he chose to indulge his
charge occasionally with a bit of green walk
and nibble. To accomplish this, where he
observed a gap in a hedge, he bounded into
the field and ran on to the farther extremity
on his route. If he found an opening there,
he returned and drove the sheep into the pas
ture TO pick up a little on their way if not
he occupied the gap and resolutely denied
them entrance, driving them, with barking,
along the turnpike road"
In Davidson's "Trade and Travel in the
Far East" a work lately issued in London,
we have a notice of a tame leopard
awhile on the subject of wild animals, l
may mention a leopard that was kept by an
English officer in Samarang, during our &C.
c~upation of the Dutch colonies. This ami
NAL had its liberty, and used 10 run all over
the house after its master. One morning, af-
ter breakfast, the officer was sitting smoking
his hookah, with a book in his right hand
and the hookah-snak in his left, when he felt
a slight pain in the left hand, and, on attemp-
ting to raise it, was checked by a low, angry
growl from his pet leopard. On looking
down, he saw the animal had been licking
the back of his hand, and had, by. degrees,
drawn a little blood. The leopard would not
suffer the removal Of the hand, but continued
licking it with great apparent relish, which
did not much please his master, who, with
great presence of mind, without attempting
again to disturb the pet in his proceeding,
called to his servant 10 bring him a pistol,
with which he shot the animal dead on the
spot. Such pets as snakes nineteen feet long
and full grown leopards, are not to be trifed
with. The largest snake l ever saw was
twenty-five feet long and eight inches in dia'
meter. l have heard of sixty feet snakes bui
cannot vouch for the truth OF the tale."
In an English work, called the "Remin.
i~scences of the late Major Rogers" we find
a word or two about the freaks of monkeys
He had once accepted the invitation of a
brother officer, in a totally different part of the
island, to try a few days. hostilities against
Tie elephants of that neighbo-hood, and had
arrived after a days sport, to within a mile
or two of the bungalow, where his host and
hostess were awaiting his arrival, when, pas
sing by a delightfully."- cool looking river, he
thought a plunge would be the most renova-
ting luxury in existence so a plunge he de-
,ermined to take, sending on his servants with
his guns, and an inumation that in ten min
utes, he would be home 10 dinner. So strip
ping and placing his cloths very carefully on
a stone, he began to luxuriate in the water.
He was a capital swimmer, and had SWAN
to some distance, when, to his horror and
dismay, on looking to the place where he
bad left his habiliments. he perceived a do
zen monkeys ''overhauling" his entire ward
robe! One was putting its legs through the
sleeves of his shirt another examining its
head into his trowsers; a third trying to find
if any treasure was concealed in his boot
whilst the hat formed a source of wonder
ment and amusement to some two or three
others, who were endeavoring to unravel its
mystery by unripping the lining and taking
half a dozen bites out of the brim.
AS soon as he gained. his mental equillbrl
um, (for the thing was so ridiculous as t
make him laugh heartily, notwithstanding
his disgust at seeing his garments turned Il
such '.vile purposeS") he made with all hast
towards the shore; but judge OF his horro
when he saw these precious rascals' eaci
catch up what he could lay hold of, and raj
tie off at full speed into the Jungle! not leav
ing poor Rogers even the vestige of an arIi
Gle of raiment to covar himself. All he hear
, was a glorious chattericg, as they one by on
disappeared, the last one lcgging off his shirt
3 which, being rather awkward TO carry, wa
continually tripping it up by getting between
his legs. Here was a pretty pickle for
: Christian, under a boiling sun and here h
: STAYED until the inmates of the bungalow, be
: ginning to suspect some accident, came gu
in search, and found poor Rogers sitting u
TO his neck in water, in a frame of min
, which we may conclude to be "more easil.
imagined than described"
. MrRrH AMI WIsDoM.-Nobody can den.
0 that there is truth in the old saying, sit j
n GOOD to be merry and wise." Not only i
. his simnle truth, but sound philosophy