Part 2

Mrs. Houston's lines on the, 240--peculiar intelligence of, 241--the monks and their dogs, 242--a dog saves a woman's life, 243--intuitive foreboding of danger, 244--a dog saves a child, 245--revenges his ill-treated master, 247--a St. Bernard dog named Barry saves forty lives, 248--destruction of a whole party by an avalanche, 249.

THE BLOODHOUND.

Habits of the bloodhound, 251--its remarkable scent, 252--pursuit of Wallace with a bloodhound, 253--bloodhounds employed for hunting negroes in Cuba, 253--a bloodhound traces a miscreant twenty miles, 255--Sir W. Scott's description of a bloodhound, 255--extract from Wanley's "Wonders," 256--a bloodhound discovers a lost child, 257--the Spanish chasseurs and their dogs, 258--a sheepstealer discovered by a bloodhound, 260--atrocities of the Spaniards, 261.

THE TERRIER.

Its varieties, 265--Peter, 266--a terrier kills a child from jealousy, 268--pines to death from jealousy, 268--guards a lady in her walks, 269--affection of a terrier, 269--Sir Walter Scott's description of Wasp, 270--brings assistance to his imprisoned master, 271--gets a friend to pay his boat-hire, 272--Mrs. Grosvenor's dog, 273--a bell-ringing and message-carrying terrier, 273--a dog knows his mistress's dress, and follows the wearer, 274--anecdotes of a terrier at Hampton Court, 274--a terrier saves his master from being burnt to death, 277--suckles a rat, 277--tries to prevent his master from beating his son, 278--Pincer seeks assistance in dislodging rats, 278--a terrier rescues her two drowned pups, 280--seeks assistance in getting a bone, 281--gets a lady to ring the bell for him, 282--flies at the throat of a man who attacks his master, 282--a grateful terrier, 283--attachment to a cat, 283--clever expedient of two affectionate dogs, 284--Snap, 285--the fate of a gentleman revealed to his family by means of a terrier, 286--a terrier in the Tower follows a soldier to find his master, 288--Snob, 289--a terrier suckles fox-cubs, 290--brings assistance to his canine friend, 291--returns from York to London, 292--finds a thief in the cupboard, 292--friendship between a terrier and bantam, 293--traces his master to Gravesend, 294--Peter, 295--a terrier suckles a kitten, 295--a terrier discovers where his master has travelled by the scent, 296--nurses a brood of ducklings and chickens, 296--brings his master's wife to the dead body of her husband, 297--Keeper recognises his master's vessel after a long interval, 298.

THE SPANIEL.

Sings, 300--affected by a particular air, 301--gathers a water-lily, 303--retrieves a wild duck, 303--a grateful spaniel, 304--faithful to his guillotined master, 304--Dash, her intelligence and fidelity, 305--gratitude for surgical assistance, 306--spaniels in cover, 308--the Clumber spaniels, 308--Lord Albemarle's spaniels, 309--suckling, 309--friendship between a dog and cat, 310--Rose travels from London to Worcester, 311--recognition of his master after a long absence, 312--friendship between a spaniel and partridge, 313--a spaniel avoids being left behind, 315--an adept in shoplifting, 316--takes up his abode at a grave in St. Bride's churchyard, 317--dies of grief for his dam's death, 317--dogs of the poor the most affectionate, 318--a spaniel takes up his abode in St. Olave's churchyard, 319--causes a man to be executed for murder, 320--saves the life of Mrs. Alderman Yearsley, 321--a spaniel's recognition of his old master by scent, 323--a King Charles spaniel alarms his mistress and saves her from being robbed, 324--a spaniel knocks at the door, 326--opens the gate to release other dogs, 326--imitates his master in eating turnips, 327--finds his way from Boston to Chepstow, 328--prevents a cat from stealing meat, 329--Mrs. Browning's lines on, 329.

THE POODLE.

The Shoeblack's poodle, 332--two learned poodles exhibited at Milan, 332--a poodle reminds the servant that he wants a walk, 336--hides the whip, 336--performance in a London theatre, 337--finds his way from London to Inverary, 342--supports himself during his master's absence, 342--friendship with a terrier, 342--discerns a rogue at first sight, and causes him to be detected, 343--enjoys a glass of grog, 344--carries three puppies a long distance, one at a time, 345--fetches his master's slippers, &c., 346--imitates the agonies of death, 346--goes to church by habit without the family, the road being overflowed, 347--watches over the dead body of his master, 347--protects his master's body, 348--climbs up a house in Wells Street, Oxford Street, 348--anecdote of Froll, 349.

THE ESQUIMAUX DOG.

Traditions, 353--Capt. Lyons' account of the, 354--Col. Hamilton Smith's account of one, 359.

THE OTTER TERRIER.

Somerville's description of an otter-hunt, 361--otter-hounds almost extinct, 362--otter-hunting, 363 to end of chapter.

THE GREYHOUND.

Match between a Scotch greyhound and Snowball, 368--Match between a greyhound and a racehorse, 368--its courage and perseverance, 369--a coursed hare dies of exhaustion, 369--a hare and two dogs die of exhaustion, 370--a wild greyhound, 370--greyhounds coupled pursue a hare, 372--a greyhound brings assistance to his drowning master, 372--finds his way from Cumnock to Castle Douglas, 373--canine friendship, 373--King Richard's greyhound, 375--attachment between St. Leger and his greyhound, 377--the Persian greyhound, 379.

THE POINTER.

Its origin and present breed, 384--a pointer punished by her grand-dam, 386--disgust at a bad shot, 387--pointing on the top of a wall, 388--steady pointing, 389--a weather-wise pointer, 389--guards some dropped birds all night, 389--finds his way back from America, 390--traces his master four hundred miles, 390--M. Léonard's dogs, Brague and Philax, 391--a pointer acts as a landing-net, 394--calls the attention of his master to a hare, 394--an extraordinary pointer, 395--a pointer suckles a hedgehog, 398.

THE SETTER.

Its origin and present breed, 400--smells birds a hundred yards off, 401--acts as a retriever, 402--traces a wounded deer, and brings her master to it next morning, 403--finds a lost whip, 404--gratitude of a dying setter, 405--friendship with a cat, 406--a setter angry with his master for missing birds, 406--falls in love with a mongrel, 407--effect of imagination on pregnant bitches, 408--Médor brings the keys to his shut-out mistress, 409--sagacity in hunting red-legged partridges, 410.

THE PUG DOG.

Its history and progress, 412--a pug saves the life of the Prince of Orange, 413--a lady incurs a pug's displeasure for preventing him from stealing, 414--a pug pronounces the word William, 415--ditto Elizabeth, 416--the Comforter, 416.

THE TURNSPIT.

Recollections of it, 418--an industrious dog punishes his lazy fellow-labourer, 419--one dog forces another to take his turn at the wheel, 420.

THE FOXHOUND.

Somerville's lines on, 421--friendship between a fox and a pack of hounds, 424--dog always attacks the fox's head, 424--a hound finds its way back from Lincolnshire to Frogmore, 425--dog found swimming across the Channel, 425--dog finds its way back from Ireland to Liverpool, 425--three hounds escape from their kennel in Ireland and return to Leicestershire, 426--bitch after losing her eye continues to follow the fox, 427--three hounds hunt a fox alone for seven hours, 428--pack of hounds hunt a fox for eight hours, 428--a hound follows a fox for thirty hours, 429--foxhound follows with her new-born pup in mouth, 429--hounds follow a fox for four days, 430--fox leaps a precipice of sixty yards and is followed by the hounds, 433--foxhounds refuse to eat a bag-fox, 435.

BEAGLE.

Description of, 438--lines on, by Dryden and Pope, 439.

MASTIFF.