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"'One evening I said to my mother, "I am going to Bowerhope for a fortnight; but I shall not take Hector with me, for he is constantly quarrelling with the other dogs, or breeding some kind of an uproar." "'My mother answered me, promptly, "I am glad of it; I like best to have him at home." "'Nothing more was said on the subject.
Mary's Lock, I found the river so swollen, I had to get across in a boat; and yet, when I arrived at Bowerhope, I found Hector, very wet, sitting on a knoll, impatiently awaiting me." "In Bath, England, there were at one time a large number of dogs employed in cooking-houses, to turn the spits used in roasting fowls.
Alexander Laidlaw of Bowerhope, on St. Mary's Loch, in the year 1842. One wild day of storm and deep-lying snow he started out to see after the safety of his sheep. Hours had passed, darkness had fallen, and he did not come home. Then a shepherd remembered having seen him crossing a certain hill where snow lay extra deep.
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