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fond of following strangers, but we got him out once, and happening, unfortunately, to miss several times, he took it in such high dudgeon that he tucked tail and incontinently trotted off home.--Nor could we ever prevail on him to follow us again. Considering the low esteem in which he evidently held an indifferent shot, it has always been a mystery to us how his master obtained a sufficient ascendancy over him to break him as he was broken. He must have taken to it naturally. Dr. Erasmus Powell, at present of this city, but formerly of Goochland, had a dog to which he irreverently gave the name of Maffitt, after the celebrated Divine John New Land Maffitt, of whom, for aught we know, he might have been an admirer. Maffitt was not at all inferior to the last-mentioned, in the field, and he was infinitely superior to him in social qualities. He had an infinite number of tricks which he played off for the amusement of his master's guests, whom he appeared to consider his own. H