Year: 1861

with that then we spread of in different direc tions and occupied the day without success. Oh what horrible night was that to me which fol owed.

 "For four days we secured the country in eve " direction, without getting any tidings of the poor child and then all, even the most sanguine in finding her, gave her up as utterly lost; and completely worn out and heart-broken, l threw myself down, wishing for death to relieve me of my misery.

 "It was on this evening that a younger broth CT, who had been away on journey up the country, returned with Bruno. who had been his sole travelling companion. The sight of the dog whose sagacity had long been the wonder of all who knew him, excited faint hope in my breast that he might yet find his young mistress, either living or dead and with this idea uppermost in my mind, half insane as was, talked to him on the sad affair just as if he were blessed with the understanding of human being. Never shall forget the sorrowfui but singularly eomprehen. sive expression of his brown eyes, as he kept them fixed upon mine all the while I was speak. ing to him; and, when had done, he turned away with low, mourning whine, and suddenly disappeared.

 Early the next morning my brother shoulder ed his rife, and announced his intention of try ing his fortune in fresh search for the poor child but all the men had gone home, and 1 was too much broken down with grief to accompany him and so, calling for the dog, and not finding him, he set of alone.

 "It was somewhat about the middle eff the day, that was sitting by the bed of my nearly dis tracted wife, trying to soothe and console her as l could, when suddenly Bruno, whom 1 had en- tlrely forgotten in the meantime, came bounding into the room, looking solled and fatgued, as if from journey, and at once began to bark and whine in strange, peculiar manner, running to I and fro between me and the door. l "'I do believe the dog has found the child, 1 exclaimed l, starting to my feet with new hope.

 ": God grant it cried my wife, wringing her hands.

 "'1'ry and be cam at least till return,' said 1 l, feeling q new life in my veins.

 "i hurried out, the dog preceding me and barking joyously. He then struck of in direc- tion different from any we had taken in our search for the girl, barking excitedly, looking back every few steps ; and thus seeming to urge me to follow him. This did, as fast as the na- ture of the ground would permit running most of the way. Into and through the deep, dense wood, down gloomy hollow, and up the steep sides of a wild. rocky mountain. the faithful dog led me distance of three miles, keeping just so far in advance, and always timing his gait to mine.

 At length We reached spot more wild, rocky and gloomy than 1 had yet seen; and, climbing to the top of a sort of cliff, Bruno gave vent to d series of strange stands. something be- tween bark. howl. and vail, alte,n nately look ing back to me and down at some object evident ly far below him. Pressing forward with e,no- tons that have no language to describe, but which seemed to still the very beating of my heart, and rendered me sick and faint, gained q footing beside the dog, and locking down into a pit or basin. surrounded on all sides by precipi- toGs roc&-a strange formation of natrue indeed Il beheld my poor child stretched out on the earth, motionless, and. as 1 then believed dead. | My brain reeled at the sight. and it is q wonder l did not fail. Perhaps did. for how got down to her l never knew, but my next remen- brance is of sitting on the earth, clusping the poor bruised, starved creature in my arms, thank ing God with all my heart that held my living, breathing child

 | "l took off my coat, tore it into strips, dashed the child to my back. clambered up the rocks, and thus conveyed her home, and tainted with fatigue and emotion just inside the doorway. That she eventually recovered you have an evidence in her presence here to night.

 |" In searching for the missing COWS, she had lost her way, and becoming frightened she had wandered off, she knew not whither, and had fallen over the rock during the night, injuring herself so severely as to be unable to escape from the pit, where she had remained five mortal days without food. Only for :his noble animal her bones might have been bleaching there to this day, and myself and wife been crushed with calamity that would have left us childIess. By what strange instinct, reason. sagacity, or what you will, the dog had found her, l am unable to say but the fact ikself would have been sufli cient, had 1 ever been doubter or a skeptic, to have made me firm believer in the watchful care and inscrutable ways of a Divine Provi- dence. Do you wonder, now, Sir, that no mo ney can purchase Bruno?"

 The next morning when the stage came along in good repair, and took leave of the worthy farmer and his family, held out my hand to the noble dog. who, placing his paw in it with a dgnihed gravity, gave me parting look of in ltelllgence that haunts me to this day. and which were l an artist, should long since been drawn upon canvass. Had that animal mind and soul? Sometimes, when I compare him with the human brutes l meet almost daily, am tempted to believe he had both, and that the latter have neither

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