Touching Instance OF Canine Affection.
Tytler the historian, in recounting the barbarous execution of May Stuart, Queen of Scotland,—who was beheaded three hundred years since, by command of Elizabeth, Queen of England, afier having suffered a long and cruel imprisonment of eighteen years,—says-. "An affecting incident now occurred. On removing the dead body, and the clothes nnd mantle which lay beside it, Mary's favourite little dog, which had followed its mistress to the scaffold unperceived, was found restinj; under them. No entreaty could prevail on it to «i«it the spot; and it remained lying beside the corpse, and stained in the blood, till forcibly carried away by the attendants.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 83, 26 February 1852, Page 4
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109Touching Instance OF Canine Affection. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 4, Issue 83, 26 February 1852, Page 4
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