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Whoso beareth it should endeavor in all ways to walk in the ways of T. G. A. O. T. U., to whom be ail glory and praise. | Whoso beareth it should endeavor in all ways to walk in the ways of T. G. A. O. T. U., to whom be ail glory and praise. | ||
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| source title = | | source title = Spiritual Scientist | ||
| source details = | | source details = v. 5, No. 6, October 12, 1876, p. 69 | ||
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... | {{Style S-Small capitals| Many}} curious historical facts prompt the question as to the link that connects the higher with the lower forms of animal life. Where reason ends and brute instinct begins is a problem which the ''savans ''and natural philosophers have onned the puzzling cap to decide to no purpose. Neither the profound and abstruse Greeks, nor their questionable superior successors have yet traced the line which divide the so-called distinction between the superior and inferior stamps of creation. The following account from St. Cyr, Tours, in France, of a genuine combat between a dog and a man, which took place in the year 1361at Paris, on the lie Notre Dame, may prove of some interest, since it was, in fact, a judicial one, and took place in order to detect a cruel murder. A French nobleman, the representative of an old family of the name of De Mont Didier, was murdered when passing through the Forest of Bondy. He was missing, as also was his pet hound, for several days; but the dog at last made his appearance at the house of his master's most intimate friend in Paris. He looked half starved, and howled bitterly. The people gave him food, which he took, and then began his lamentations afresh, moving towards the door, and returning to seize his master's friend by the coat. His actions were so peculiar, that persons determined to follow him, and in due time he led them away into the forest, and up to a certain tree, where he began to howl and scratch. The people dug down, and discovered M. de Montdider’s body. He had evidently been murdered, and hid away. Time went by, and no trace of the assassin could be found; but one day the dog met a Chevalier Macaire, and dew most violently at him. He showed the greatest fury whenever he met the Chevalier, and persons began to wonder and chatter about it, and to recollect that Macaire had been an enemy of Montdidier’s. So suspicions were roused, more particularly as the bound was particularly good-tempered to every one except the Chevalier. The King at last heard of it, and expressed a wish to see the hound. He also ordered the Chevalier to attend the court. The dog was brought, and remained very gentle until it sud denly recognized Macaire, who stood amid a crowd of courtiers. Directly the dog saw him, he sprang forward with a fearful bay, and attempted to seize him. This was in the age when the fashion of judicial combat was m vogue, so his majesty decided that a duel should take place between the chevalier and canine friend of the murdered man. The space for the combat was marked in the lleffo de Notre Dame-Macaire was only allowed to carry a stick, and a large cask was placed for the dog to retreat into when nearly beaten. Immediately the bound was let loose, he sprang on the chevalier, attacking him first on one side and then on the other, skillfully avoiding the blows from his adversary's cudgel, sad at last he made one splendid bound, seized Macairr by the throat, and pulled him down. The murderer, alarmed, thought that God had interposed to fix his guilt, so he then and there confessed bis crime in the presence of the king and all his court. There was at one time a very famed picture of this memorable combat between dog and man over the chimney of the great hall of the Chateau of Montargis. Animals were often tried during the Middle Ages, and the legal process was conducted with as much ceremony and parade, perchance with more feeling, than in the present age displayed when a woman takes her stand in the witness-box, and undergoes the ordeal of a cross-examination; therefore, the battle between a human being and a canine brute did not appear so extraordinary then, as the case reported a couple of years ago at Hanley did. | ||
A play based on this story, and called the ''Day of Montargis, ''is not unfrequently given in the provinces, where, when the dog is well trained, it is sure to bring down the house. | |||
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spiritual_scientist_v.05_n.06_1876-10-12.pdf|page=11|Spiritual Scientist, v. 5, No. 6, October 12, 1876, p. 69 | |||
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