8370 WILD FOWL SHOOTING. 
Here, after a score of years had elapsed, the faithful 
hound was true to his master, his friend, his companion 
of early days. In the revolution of time he had not 
been carried away, but lived to greet his master. His 
strength was gone, his eyes fast growing dim; he 
could not bound to meet him, as in days of yore; but 
the love-light still shone in his eyes, and he longed to 
crawl and lick the feet of his long-absent friend. 
The constancy and affection of the dog has been a 
theme of inspiration to Bulwer, Scott, Byron and oth- 
ers. The noble hound Roswal, the companion of Sir 
Kenneth, is thus eloquently spoken of : 
* As he bore to the earth Conrad, Marquis of Mon- 
serrat, traitor to Cour de Leon, the noble, faithful 
Roswal had not forgotten that night upon the mound 
beneath the standard of England; neither had he for- 
gotten the traitor who, in the darkness, while a cloud 
shut out the tell-tale ight of the moon, bore away the 
ensign, and left him weltering in his blood; he remem- 
bered all this when called upon to protect his master’s 
honor, as well as to serve his king, and using the intel- 
ligence given him by the same Power that gave us fa- 
cilities above the beasts, he did what man could not— 
detected and brought to justice the one guilty from out 
an army.” 
Cooper in his novels shows his love for the dog, 
when he makes him a companion of Deerslayer for 
years, following his master through valleys and glens 
and along the Hudson. “Natty” and his faithful 
friend eventually drift across the Mississippi and Mis- 
souri rivers, and both find their graves in Nebraska. 
The sad bereavement of the hunter is touchingly pen- 
ciled in “The Prairie,’ and although old in years, the 
