. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. The Psychics of Dogs 191 the dog was a hundred and nineteen dollars, which is about £24. The old man warmly thanked the planter, and in company with his canine friend departed. Some days later, when the Indian was nearly ready to proceed upon his journey, both he and the dog were missing. It was naturally supposed that they had gone to the place intended. Three days passed by and no one had seen them. On the fourth day the dog was seen approaching the house of the planter. The man recognised his visitor, and met him in the y
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. The Psychics of Dogs 191 the dog was a hundred and nineteen dollars, which is about £24. The old man warmly thanked the planter, and in company with his canine friend departed. Some days later, when the Indian was nearly ready to proceed upon his journey, both he and the dog were missing. It was naturally supposed that they had gone to the place intended. Three days passed by and no one had seen them. On the fourth day the dog was seen approaching the house of the planter. The man recognised his visitor, and met him in the yard. He caressed the animal, but could not induce him to go into the house. The dog returned the caresses by licking the hand of the planter, wagging his tail, and whining as if in pain ; then turning away, and starting as if going to leave, barked and whined until the man grasped the idea that the dog desired him to follow. Obeying this impulse he mounted his horse, and the dog quickly led the way to the cabin. On entering it the man found the venerable Indian very ill. There he had lain helpless for three days, without food or medicine. By the side of the bed lay a beef bone with a bit of decaying meat hanging to it. This, as the old man declared, had been secured somewhere by the dog and brought in by him and placed upon the bed for his master to eat. He could not eat it, but would not wound the feelings of the dog by throwing it out of doors. The sick man was carefully nursed, but within a few weeks he passed away, and was buried on the bank of the bayou in front of his humble cabin. The dog was taken to the plantation, where a cosy kennel was prepared for him, but he rarely stayed in it. Day after day for weeks he returned to the old village and buried some food on the grave of his loving old master. During the remaining three years of his life he continued to visit the old house, and when he died he was decently buried by the side of the one whom he had loved and, in his
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