“BOBBY” OF GREYFRIARS.
A FAITHFUL DOG. Writing in the Dearborn Independent, Paul Tyner recalls that, close to the entrance to Greyfriars churchyard in Edinburgh, as hallowed a resting place of Scotland’s worthies as Westminster Abbey is of England’s historic dead, is an obviously new and bright monument of Aberdeen granite, standing out in contra- with the time-stained grey stone memorials about it. And strange is its inscription: “To the Memory of John Gray, Died in 1858. Master of ‘Greyfriars Bobby’ (‘and even in his ashes most , beloved’). Erected by American Lovers of Bobby.” Bobby, be it known, was a winsome Skye terrier which in our fathers’ days was almost as much an Edinburgh character as was Dr. Brown’s “Rab.” For 14 years lie kept watch at his master’s grave. Bobby himself is remembered by a beautiful marble drinking fountain for me.- d dogs a stone’s throw from the entrance to the churchyard. It is surmounted by a life-size statue of the “wee beastie.” The inscription runs as follows: “ ‘Greyfriars Bobby.’ From the Life Just Before His Death. In 1858, this faithful dog followed
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 226, 1 March 1928, Page 1
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