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 1838. 
 
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JPOOR MUMRUFF. 
 
 W OULD you like to know the his- 
 tory of Poor BurrufF? if so, you will 
 find it in this little book. 
 
 But who was BurrufF? was he a 
 man, or a beast? He was a dog, and 
 he was born in India. He was a ve- 
 ry common sort of dog : he had not 
 a fine shape, but his coat was quite 
 white ; this was the reason of his be- 
 ing called BurrufF, because hurruffh 
 snow, and he was supposed to be as 
 white as snow. 
 
 BurrufF was nursed within the walls 
 of a clay hut, which stood on the side 
 of a heath, near Meerut, in India. 
 This clay hut had once belonged to a 
 beggar, but no one lived in it at the 
 time when BurrufF's mother took pos- 
 session of it. I cannot tell how Bur- 
 rufF lived when he was old enough to 
 be left by his mother ; but I dare say 
 that he had a very hard life, and had 
 
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 many a kick from the black people, 
 who are always cruel to animals. 
 
 Now there was a little English boy 
 at that time living at Meerut ; he was 
 the son of an officer, and his name 
 was Marten. This little boy used to 
 be carried out every morning at sun- 
 rise, by Nerkon his bearer, and he was 
 just old enough to be able to pra<ttle 
 to Nerkon as he was carried along. 
 Marten was a thin little boy, and ve- 
 ry light; and he used to ride on his 
 bearer's shoulder as you would upon 
 the back of a horse. 
 
 One morning, as Marten and his 
 bearer were thus taking the air, they 
 came to the edge of the common, 
 which was covered with prickly bushes 
 and various heath flowers, and there 
 they saw a shepherd, with a horse- 
 hair cloth fastened over his shoulders, 
 and a number of long-legged sheep ; 
 they also saw a goat, with a fine white 
 beard which came down to his feet. 
 
 Then they went on a little further, 
 and came just opposite to the empty 
 
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 house in which BurruflF was born : 
 the walls were built of mud, but there 
 was no roof or thatch upon it. ^' Who 
 lives in that house'?" said little Mar- 
 ten to his Nearer; but before the 
 hearer could answer, BurrufF put his 
 nose out of the door-way, and stood 
 wagging his tail. Marten had a piece 
 of a white roll in his hand, and he 
 broke a bit off and threw it to the 
 dog. BurrufF was at first frightened 
 when he saw something thrown to 
 him ; but Marten called to him in a 
 gentle voice, and then he ventured to 
 smell the bit of bread, and the next 
 moment he swallowed it and looked 
 up for more. Marten threw him an- 
 other and another piece, till he had 
 not a bit of his roll left. I have drawn 
 a picture of Marten and his hearer, 
 and BurrufF, and the goat, and the 
 shepherd. When you come to this 
 place you must look at the picture, 
 and I dare say you will like it. 
 
 Now BurrufF was a very sociable 
 gentleman, and very free and easy in 
 
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 POOR BURRUFF, 
 
 his manners : it was enough for him 
 only to meet with a kind look ; he was 
 always ready, at such times, to strike 
 up a great friendship; and so it was 
 now. As soon as he had eaten the 
 bread he was for following Marten 
 home, but the hearer would not let 
 that be bv any means, and sent him 
 back in great haste. The next morning, 
 however, and the next, and the next. 
 Marten persuaded his hearer to carry 
 him to the heath, where Burruff was 
 always ready to receive him, and to 
 take the little morsels which Marten 
 brought for him; and, after the third 
 
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POOR BURRUFF. 9 
 
 morninp:, the poor dog was found just 
 without the gate, licking his lips and 
 wagging his tail, ready to pay his com- 
 pliments as soon as he should see his 
 little friend. *' I do love Burfv," said 
 Marten to his hearer, for the little boy 
 could not say Burruff, *' and 1 will 
 ask papa to let me take him in." 
 
 Marten did ask this favour of his 
 papa when he was brought home to 
 breakfast; and he begged so very hard, 
 that his father granted his request ; 
 and, early the next morning, his bearer 
 took him out to look for the poor dog. 
 
 But in the mean time an order had 
 come out, that all the dogs who had 
 no master about Meerut should be 
 killed ; not from cruelty, but because 
 there were so many poor dogs about 
 who were dvine; of hun2:er, and had 
 no home. Marten had not heard of 
 this order, and therefore when he did 
 not find Burruff at the gate, he beg- 
 ged his hearer to carry him to the hut 
 on the heath ; and all the way the 
 little boy talked to his hearer, and said 
 
POOR BURRUFF. 
 
 how he would feed Burfv, and take 
 care of him : hut when he came upon 
 the heath, he saw no white dog*, nei- 
 ther was there any shepherd there, 
 nor any sheep or goats, only two gen- 
 tlemen riding on an elephant. 
 
 I do believe that vou never saw an 
 elephant, and I am almost sure that 
 you never rode upon one, therefore I 
 have drawn the picture of this ele- 
 phant for you ; it was a black one, 
 and very large, and walked as fast as 
 any horse could canter. 
 
 Marten and his hearer had come up 
 very close to the hut before they saw 
 
POOR BURRUFF. 11 
 
 BurrufF, and then thev found him ly* 
 ing in the door-way, in a miserable 
 condition, and with an arrow in his 
 side. O, how did little Marten cry ! 
 and how did he beg the bearer to pull 
 the arrow out of the dog:'s side ! but 
 the bearer w^ould not touch him : how- 
 ever, he was so good as to hasten 
 back with Marten, who sent the 
 sweeper-man immediately to the poor 
 dog, to remove the arrow, and bring 
 him to his master's house ; and he pro- 
 mised him a piece of silver money if he 
 would take care of the poor creature. 
 BurrufFwas soon brought to his new 
 home, and laid on straw, and fed ; 
 and, as the arrow had been taken out, 
 and the wound was not deep, he soon 
 licked it well: and then he was able 
 to attend upon his dear little master 
 when he was taking the anr, and on 
 many other occasions. Marten had a 
 collar, with his name upon it, put on 
 Burruff's neck, to prevent any one 
 from supposing that he was a dog 
 without a master. 
 
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 POOR BURRUFF. 
 
 Would you not like to see a view of 
 the house of Marten's papa, and the 
 verandah where Burruff spent most of 
 his time ? 
 
 Burfy and his master did not remain 
 very long at Meerut, for Marten's pa- 
 pa removed into Bengal, and there 
 they had a pleasant house, standing 
 in a garden. {See Frontispiece.) 
 
 Now Bengal is very hot; and one 
 moonlight night, when Marten's papa 
 and mamma were gone out, the ser- 
 vants brought Marten's little bed out 
 at the house-door, and laid him to 
 
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 sleep under the shade of a vtrandah^ 
 where he was very cool and comfort- 
 able, and enjoyed the smell of some 
 very sweet flowers. 
 
 Marten lay on his bed awake a lit- 
 tle time, and was looking up at the 
 moon and the stars, and thinking of a 
 dear little sister whom he had once 
 had, and who was then dead ; and he 
 was trying to remember all that his 
 mamma had told him about little ba- 
 bies who die before they are old 
 enough to know good from evil : how 
 these little children are made white in 
 the blood of the Lamb, and received 
 into glory. These were sweet thoughts, 
 and I wish that all little children, 
 when lying on their beds, had such 
 thoughts as these. The last thing 
 which Marten did before he slept was 
 to stretch out his little white hand 
 and lay it on Burfy's head, for Burfy 
 always lav bv his master's bed. 
 
 In the mean time all the servants 
 had gone to a distance at the other end 
 of the vtrandakf where they sat talk- 
 
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 POOR BtJRRUFF. 
 
 ing and gossipping with each other, all 
 of them being seated on the pavement. 
 At length Burfy was heard to growl 
 in a low under tone, and then to 
 snarl, and then to howl and bark in 
 the most terrifying manner. And first 
 Marten's bearer jumped up, and all the 
 servants followed him, and ran towards 
 Marten ; and behold, when they came 
 close to his bed, they saw a great 
 hooded serpent with fiery eyes, drawn 
 up in one corner, and ready to dart 
 at the little sleeping boy's white hand. 
 In another moment the serpent would 
 
POOR BURRUFF. 
 
 15 
 
 have bitten the child, and then no- 
 thing could have saved him from a 
 painful death. The hearer y however, 
 seized Marten's bed-cover and threvi^ 
 it over the serpent, and then the ser- 
 vants, all together, beat it to death 
 with sticks and stones. 
 
 Thus poor Burfy saved the life of 
 his little master. And Marten's pa- 
 pa was so grateful to the white dog, 
 that when he came to England he 
 brought him with him : and he took 
 so much care of him that he lived to 
 a great age ; and when at last he 
 died, he was buried in the gentleman's 
 garden, and a white rose bush plant- 
 ed over his grave, 
 
 I hope that all the little boys who 
 read this, may learn thereby how love- 
 ly it is to be kind to dumb creatures. 
 Had Marten been a cruel boy, he ne» 
 ver would have escaped the death 
 which threatened him from the mouth 
 of the hooded serpent. 
 
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