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George Cruikshank's Table-book (1869)

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856 · London, Bell and Daldy · leaf 281

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ters life. Thieves were plundering thehouse, when Snees ran to the alarm bell, and never ceased pulling it till the inmateswere alarmed; the thieves were apprehended just in time, for Le Vaillant says when heawoke there were two gentlemen at his bedside, one with a pistol, the other with a… … peisous, who knew Snees well, declare this was done pui^posely, from a desii*e of the faithfulanimal to show resjiect to the memoiy of his kind master by going into mouraing forhim. The instinct of Bears is equally wonderful. There was one at the Zoological Gardens,who would never mount the pole on…

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