Part 39

See Bewick's "Quadrupeds," p. 306, 1st ed.

A celebrated portrait painter, and Secretary to the Scottish Academy of Painting. This gentleman also excelled in the portraits of animals.

"Sometimes the members or domestics of the convent have been sufferers in their efforts to save others. On the 17th of December, 1825, three domestics of the convent with two dogs descended to the vacherie, on the Piedmontese side of the mountain, and were returning with a traveller, when an avalanche overwhelmed them. All perished except one of the dogs, which escaped by its prodigious strength, after having been thrown over and over. Of the poor victims, none were found until the snow of the avalanche had melted in the returning summer, when the first was discovered on the 4th of June, and the last on the 7th of July."

Mrs. Grosvenor, now of Richmond, Surrey.

For other instances of speaking dogs see ante, p. 49.

In p. 147 a similar anecdote has been recorded of a Newfoundland dog and a spaniel; and in p. 221 an instance is given of the revenge taken by a Colley on a tailor's dog.

Or if the weather be fine and warm they may run out and dry themselves.--Ed.

Sea-air, however, especially during long sea-voyages, perhaps in connexion with salt meat, has been known to produce the distemper in dogs.--Ed.

House-dogs fed on raw meat, bones, and liver, soon become offensive neighbours; the more so in proportion to their want of outdoor exercise.--Ed.

INDEX.

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BAN DOG 479 BEAGLE 438 BLOODHOUND 250 BULL DOG 454 BULL-DOG TERRIER 16

COACH DOG 459 COLLEY (SCOTCH) 185 CUR DOG 466

DALMATIAN 459 DANISH DOG 463 DEER-HOUND 119

ESQUIMAUX DOG 353

FOXHOUND 421

GREYHOUND 367 GREYHOUND (PERSIAN) 380

LURCHER 475

MASTIFF 440 MÂTIN (FRENCH) 465

NEWFOUNDLAND DOG 67, 133

OTTER TERRIER 361

POINTER 383 POODLE 331 PUG DOG 412

ST. BERNARD DOG 240 SETTER 400 SHEPHERD'S DOG 185 SPANIEL 77, 300 STAG-HOUND 116

TERRIER 20, 264 TURNSPIT 418

WATER SPANIEL 300 WOLF DOG (IRISH AND HIGHLAND) 85, 107

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