Year: 1878

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A Dog Supplying Cake to Lost Child.


One OF the most striking instances
which we have heard, say the Messrs.
Chambers In their Anecdotes OF
Dogs" OF sagacity and personal at
tachment In the shepherds dog, oc-
CURED about a half a century ago
among the GrampiaD Mountains.
In one OF his excursions to his distant
focks, shepherd took with him
one Of his children. After traversing
the hills for some time, attended by
his dog. the shepherd found himself
under the necessity OF ascending a
summit some distance to have
more extensive view of his range.
As the ascent was too fatiguing for
the child, he left him on a small
plain at the bottom, with the strict
Injunction not to stir from 1t till his
return.


Scarcely, however, had he gained
the summit, when the horizon was
suddenly darkened by one OF those
impenetrable mists which frequently
decend so rapidly amid these noun
tains as, in the space OF few min
utes, almost to turn day into night.
The anxious father instantly hastened
back to find his child; but, owing to
the unusual darkness and his own tre-
pidation, he unfortunately missed his
way in the descent. After a fruitless
search of many hours among the
dangerous morasses and cataracts
with which these mountains abound,
he was at length overtaken by night.


Still wandering on without know
Ing whittier, he at length came to the
verge Of mist, and by the light Of the
moon, discovered he had reached the
bottom Of the valley. and was within
short distance of his cottage. To
renew the search that night was
equally fruitless and dangerous. He
was therefore obliged to return to his
cottage, having lost both his child
and his dog, which had attended him
faithfully for years


Next morning, by daybreak, the
shepherd accompanied by a band OF
his neighbors, set out in search OF his
child: but. after day spent In fruit
less fatigue, he was at last compelled,
by the approach Of night, to descend
from the mountain. On returning to
his cottage, he found that the dog,
which he had lost the day before, had
been home, and on receiving piece
OF cake, had instantly started off
again.


For several successive days the
shepherd renewed the search for his
child, and still, on returning at eve
ming disappointed 20 his cottage,
he found that the dog had been
home, and, on receiving his usual al
lowance OF cake, had instantly disap-
peared. Struck with this singular
circumstance, he remained at home
one day, and when the dog as usual
departed with his piece Of cake, he
resolved to follow him, and find out
the cause of his strange procedure.


The dog led the way to a cataract
at some distance from the spot where
the shepherd had left his child. The
banks Of the cataract almost joined
at the top, yet, separated by an
abys of immense depth, presented
that appearance which so often as
tonishes and appalls the travellers
who frequent the Grampian Noun
tsins, and indicates that these stu
pendous chasms were not the silent
work OF time, but some sudden effect
Of some violent convulsion Of the
earth.


Down on these rugged and almost
perpendicular descents the dog began,
without hesitation, to make his way,
and at last disappeared into cave,
the mouth OF which was almost upon
a level with the torrent. The shep-
herd with difficulty followed, but, on
entering the cave, what were his
emotions when he beheld his child
eating with much satisfaction the
cake which the dog had just brought
him, while the faithful animal stood
by cycling his young charge with the
utmost complacence.


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