Part 5

Mrs Schimmelpenninck and the Dogs 120

Sir Walter Scott and his Dogs 122

Sheridan on the Dog-Tax 123

Sydney Smith dislikes Dogs.--An ingenious way of getting rid of them 124

Sydney Smith on Dogs 125

Sydney Smith.--"Newfoundland Dog that breakfasted on Parish Boys" 126

Robert Southey on his Dogs 126

A Dog that was a good judge of Elocution.--Mr True and his Pupil 127

Dog that tried to please a Crying Child 128

Horace Walpole's pet dog Rosette 128

Horace Walpole.--Arrival of his dog Tonton 129

Horace Walpole.--Death of his dog Tonton 130

Archbishop Whateley and his Dogs 131

Archbishop Whately on Dogs 132

Sir David Wilkie.--A Dog Rose 133

Ulysses and his Dog 133

WOLF 135

Polson and the Last Wolf in Sutherlandshire 135

"If the tail break, you'll find that" 137

FOX 138

An Enthusiastic Fox-hunting Surgeon 138

Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, on the Pleasures of Fox-hunting, and the gratification of the Fox 139

Arctic Foxes converted into Postmen, with Anecdotes (with a plate) 142

JACKAL 148

Burke on the Jackal and Tiger 149

CAT 149

Jeremy Bentham and his pet cat "Sir John Langborn 150

S. Bisset and his Musical Cats 152