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been deservedly transmitted to posterity by a                   monument in basso-relievo, which still re- mains on the chimney piece of the grand hall, at the castle of Montargis, in France. The sculpture, which represents a dog fighting with a champion, is explained by the follow- ing narrative:-- Aubri de Mendidier, a gentleman of family and fortune, travelling alone through the forest of Bondi, was murdered, and buried under a tree. His dog, an English bull-dog, would not quit his master's grave for several days; till at length compelled by hunger, he                   proceeded to the house of an intimate friend of the unfortunate Aubri's, at Paris, and by                   his melancholy howling seemed desirous of                    expressing the loss they had both sustained. He repeated his cries, ran to the door, look- ed back to see if any one followed him, re- turned to his master's friend, pulled him by                   the sleeve, and with dumb eloquence entreat- ed him to go with him. The singularity of all these actions of the dog, added to the circumstance of his coming there without his master, whose faithful com- panion he had always been, prompted the company to follow the animal, who conducted them to a tree, where he renewed his howl, scratching the earth with his feet, signifi- cantly entreating them to search that parti- cular spot. Accordingly, on digging, the