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breed ;” not a collie dog, and that it barked like a mountain fox. 
The spaniel’s voice hardly answers to this description, there is a 
yap in the wild fox cry which I do not think will be found in 
spaniels or cockers. 
Perhaps the painters would be able to help us. The artists 
would surely have seized on such a subject and made it their own. 
So far as could be ascertained only four pictures were in existence, 
one by Daniell, R.A., which was exhibited in the Royal Academy 
about 1833,a woodcut of which is given in “Domesticated Animals,” 
published by Parker in 1834. The dog there depicted above the 
dead master, clad in tartan kilt, is a huge white terrier of mongrel 
breed. Another picture by Pettitt is described by King Matthew, 
in which he tells us “the faithful dog (a little white terrier bitch 
which lived in Grasmere many years after the event) is keeping watch 
over the remains.” Landseer’s picture makes it appear like a 
retriever, if memory serves me. The fourth was a beautiful 
water-colour drawing, full of meaning, by Harry Goodwin, and 
therein the dog suggested is a black and tan collie. 
It was high time to obtain some news direct from any repre- 
sentative of the family who might chance to be alive; and good 
fortune allowed me an introduction to the sole surviving member, 
in the direct male line, Miss Agnes Gough, the grandniece of 
the faithful dog’s master, only daughter of the late rector of 
Charlton-on-Otmoor, near Oxford, who was a Fellow of Queen’s 
College, and who died in 1862. I had previously gathered that 
the young man was known in Manchester as the son of a wool- 
stapler who was sprung from Crosby Garrett and had cousins in 
Kendal. He was believed to be in the office of a firm named 
Wadkin, acting as traveller for them. « It was clear that what with 
his love for the poets and the pencil, his devotion to animals, his 
care for fishing, and his enthusiasm for the Volunteers, he had 
departed from the tradition of his fathers, but it was in vain that I 
attempted to get a copy of the “minute of disownment” which 
was, it is said, found in the young man’s pocket after death, 
because this expulsion from the ranks of the Friends had taken 
place before the Hardshaw Monthly Meeting at Manchester was 
divided into East and West. 
