"Greyfriars Bobby," the Edinburgh dog, who insisted on sleep- ing
for (we think) ten years on his master's grave, is to have a red granite monument erected to him, at the expense of Lady Burdett Coutts. It is to be a drinking fountain for dogs, and to be seven feet high, and to have a bronze figure of Greyfriars Bobby on the summit. A plate beneath is to commemorate the authentic facts of Bobby's history. We would suggest as a fitting inscription two of Cowper's lines on the feat of his dog Beau "My dog shall mortify the pride
Of man's superior breed."
They would be still more applicable to a dog who had loved his master so well when no longer visible to him as quite to shame the affections of average human kind. Can one seriously doubt that Greyfriars Bobby has rejoined the master he loved so faithfully in death ?
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