THE POWER OF THE HUMAN EYE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2168, 28 February 1880, Page 3

THE POWER OF THE HUMAN EYE.

Some years ago a Colonel in the Iloyal Horse Guards had a tine house in Buckinghamshire, and also a remarkably fine old English blood hound which was constantly chained up in the yard. One morning after the arrival of an old chum, Colonel , he was much surprised at not finding his old friend at the breakfast-table. He desired a servant to go to his room and ascertain the cause of his guest’s absence. On arriving at the room he found the door ajar. On knocking, the answer was, “ Conic in, and remove this beast!” Whereupon the servant entered, and was startled to find his master’s blood-hound in the room. An enormous and fierce dog, who had broken his chain and made his escape from the yard, having scented a stranger in the house, had found his way to the guests bed-room, unperccivcd by any of the servants, and finding the door unclosed by the servant who had called him in the morning, had planted himself on his hind legs at the foot of the bed, with his fore feet resting on it, his eyes fixed intently on the unfortunate prisoner, and apparently awaiting a chance to spring on his unlucky victim, from which he was only restrained by a firm resolute and unflinching gaze from the Colonel’s eye. In this position he was kept for over half an hour. This incident—an authentic one reminds us of many similar, especially of lions who have been deterred from their fatal spring by the marvellous power of the human eye.