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Updated: July 11, 2025
Give me just one tooth of an elephant, dredged up off Scarborough, and if I don't make those men delighted, then I may leave the Royal Society." "But, my good Bashaw," said Blair, "if you blindfold one of the skippers, and tell him the soundings from time to time, he'll take you from point to point, and pick up his marks just as surely as you could touch your bedroom-door in the dark." "Exactly.
She sank slowly to her knees, and low moans of agony broke from her at intervals. "Dead, dead, dead!" "Is it not terrible?" he cried. She did not see him nor hear him, but moaned out wildly, "Dead, dead, dead!" The bedroom-door was opened. She shrieked with sudden violence, "Dead! ah, pity! the glass! the composing draught." She stretched her hands out wildly.
I am reminded by the anecdote related in the Spectator of July 15th, "A Canine Guardian," of the sagacity of a favourite Scotch terrier which was displayed some years ago. I was dressing one morning, and my bedroom-door was ajar. Standing at my dressing-table, I was surprised to see Fan come up to me, frisking about, and looking eagerly into my face, whether from pleasure or not I could not tell.
His boots were seen outside his bedroom-door next morning; but we have the authority of his landlady for stating that he neither emerged therefrom nor accepted sustenance for four-and-twenty hours.
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