. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. CAXISE BVRGLAEY. 121 â was direeteil to drive were ; reluctant to leuve their own pastures, aud sometimes the intervention of rivers or other oljstaclcs made their progreso peculiarly difficult. On such occasions, Yarrow- continued his efforts to drive his plunder forward until the day began to dawn, a signal which, he conceived, rendered it necessary for him to desert his spoil, and slink homeward by a circuitous road. It is generally said this accomplished Dog was hanged along with Ids master; but the truth is, he .survived him long
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. CAXISE BVRGLAEY. 121 â was direeteil to drive were ; reluctant to leuve their own pastures, aud sometimes the intervention of rivers or other oljstaclcs made their progreso peculiarly difficult. On such occasions, Yarrow- continued his efforts to drive his plunder forward until the day began to dawn, a signal which, he conceived, rendered it necessary for him to desert his spoil, and slink homeward by a circuitous road. It is generally said this accomplished Dog was hanged along with Ids master; but the truth is, he .survived him long, in the service of a man in Leithen : yet was said afterwards to have shown little of the wonderful instinct exhibited in tli,e service of Millar. " Another instance of similar sagacity a friend of mine discovered Ln a beautiful little Spaniel, wliich he had purchased from a dealer in the canine race. When he entered a shop, he was not long in observing that his little companion made it a rule to follow at some interval, and to estrange itself from his master so much as to ajipear totally unconnected with him. And when he left the shop, it. T\'as the Dog's custom to remain behind him till it could find an opportunity of seizing a pair of gloves, or silk stockings, or some similar property, which it brought to its master. The poor fellow probably .saved its life by falling into the hands of an honest ; Equally good is the account given by Mr. Youatt of a paii- of canine house-lifters, whose talents were really pre-eminent. One is almost tempted to wonder if an iron safe with all the most recent improvements would have been proof against their attacks. "The writer of this work had a brace of Greyhounds as arrant thieves as ever li\ed. They would now and then steal into the cooking-room belonging to the kennel, lift the lid from the boiler, and, if any portion of the joint or piece of meat projected above the water, suddenly seize it, and before there was time
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