A Thoughtful Bird.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 31, 31 July 1902, Page 29

A Thoughtful Bird.

At the Red Lion Inn, ITungerforcl (writes a contributor to a Homo magazine), there lived for many years a rav#n who, by the care ho showed for dogs, might have been a member of the Royal Humane Society. Driving one day into the inn yard with a party, we injured the leg of a dog ■which was with us, and whilq wo were examining the injury Ralph, the raven, was evidently a concerned spectator. From the- minute the dog was lied uj>. Ralph not only visited him. but brought him bones and attended to him with particular and repeated marks of kindness 1 olxsrived it to the- ostler, who told mo that the bird had been brought up vuth a dog), and that the ailed urn between them was 1 mutual, Ralph s poor dog aftey a while brokq hi* lietg. and during the long tune lie was (on-* lined Ralph waited on him constantly, carried him his pi <>\ imoiis. and scarcely left him alone One night by accident the stable door had been shut, and Ralph had been deprived of the compaiu of In^ friend the whole night, but the ostlei found in the morning the door so pecked away that had it not been opened Ralph in another hour wouldi have made his own entrance Se\eral other acts of kindness were shown b\ this bird to dogs m geneial, paiticu-t larly to maimed or sickly ones.