-- Do you know a dog that has done something like that? I'd love to hear.
This anecdote is from The Little Gleaner, A Monthly Magazine for the Young (Vol. I, New Series; London: Houlston and Sons, 1879), p.182. A Christian periodical, this magazine is full of the 19th-century variety of improving thoughts and words. I have great respect for this, but can't help but be glad we don't write this kind of thing for little kids any more (the snippet comes from the New Year's article):
Some who read the first pages of last year's Little Gleaner are now no more in this world. They have been called to lay aside our little Magazine and all things else below, and to leave behind kind parents, companions, and friends; and the dark, cold, silent grave has opened to receive their bodies; but their immortal spirits have returned to God who gave them.Yikes.
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Gosh, those Victorians were a cheery lot.
I do know of a somewhat similar case. A while back, my mother's Saint Bernard found a stray kitten in her garage. He came back to the house and led my mother to where the cat was hiding. The kitten was quite wild, and obviously frightened. For some time she wouldn't come out, or let people near her, but she'd let the dog "visit" with her.
Finally, my mother was able to bring her into the house. The cat's doing fine now, and she and the dog are still the best of friends.
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