A DOG'S AFFECTION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I saw an anecdote in your paper the other week illustrative of the sagacity of a dog. Kindly allow me to place upon record, as a kind of a companion picture, an anecdote showing the affection of one of the canine species,—a fine young retriever. For some weeks I have been staying away from my house in the country, where is the fine young retriever in question. Well, last week the- household missed him for hours, and began to think he was lost. Nothing of the kind, however. The servant, happening to go up to my bed-room, found him with his head resting on my pillow moaning heavily, and it was only with great difficulty that she- could drive him away. Surely it is incidents such as these that have made so many great men rail against humanity and uphold
their dog am, Sir, &c.,
Savage Club, Covent Garden, April 19. w uj, WIT TJAINIS.
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