Extract from 'The Country Diaries' edited by Alan Taylor.

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5 April.
1790.
Here I met with one of the most extraordinary phenomena
that I ever saw, or heard of – Mr Sellers has in his yard
a large Newfoundland dog, and an old Raven.
These have fallen deeply in love with each other, and never desire to be apart.
The bird has learned the bark of the dog, so that few can distinguish them.
She is inconsolable when he goes out: and, if he stays out a day or two, she will get up all the bones and scraps she can, and hoard them up for him till he comes back.
John Wesley.

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