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when in the shining path of the moonlight he saw a dark object evidently moving against the current.  Waiting for its nearer approach he recognized an old friend missed for some days along shore.  The animal climed into the boat without waiting for assistance, shivering, as well he might, whimpering piteously.  He was the dog of the wharfs, owned by no one, and a friend of the sailors.  Jenkins saw a long string attached to his collar, and as he put him on board a canal ^[[boat]] which lay near by, to dry himself, he untied it, wondering "what rascal had been abusing him."  He noticed that it was a top string with the initials W.R.B. marked on the button.  Immediately he thought of the owner and that we might have taken the dog on board with us.  He had seen him swim