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MY big black Newfoundland retriever, “Faust,” has a chivalrous habit of taking smaller and weaker dogs under his protection, and about two years ago he constituted himself champion of a wretched little thoroughbred mongrel whom we called the “Pauper,” because it lived on charity in the garden opposite our house. “Faust” goes out marketing with the housekeeper, and as he has a passion for bread the baker's children always give him a stale roll. One day, for fun, they gave him two, which he picked up with some difficulty and then left the shop, followed by some of the children, one a lad of sixteen. “Faust” walked along the side of the garden railing till he met his pauper friend, to whom he gave one roll, and then ate the other himself, waving his tail vigorously in evident satisfaction. A neighbour of ours has a kitchen cat who was taken in out of charity himself, and who has several times brought in famishing friends for a meal.
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MACLAGAN, N. Intelligence in Animals. Nature 28, 150 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/028150e0
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