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mountain and moor. We must always have a grateful re- 

 collection of a lady who strongly objected to these inno- 

 vations on her generous and refined hospitality. Though 

 60 miles from her doctor, and dependent on coasting 

 traders for luxuries and fashions, she looked back with 

 regret to the days when she had no conveyance but a horse 

 or a boat. 



Having spoken of the stock-farmer and of the shepherd, 

 we must introduce to our southern readers the third member 

 of the triumvirate, the Dog. To any inquiry of a Scotch 

 shepherd as to the race of one of his faithful ministers, you 

 would receive the answer, " Hout ! he is jist a collie." But 

 this designation is far too indiscriminate, for it is applied 

 equally to the malapert animal which, at the sound of your 

 wheels, rushes from every black hut, and, having pursued 

 you for a few score yards with his petulant yaffle, gives his 

 tail a conceited curl and trots back to inform the family 

 that he has driven you off the premises. Far different is 

 the sheep-dog. Whether employed in driving on the road, 

 or herding on the hill, his grave and earnest aspect evinces 

 his full consciousness that important interests are committed 

 to his charge. When on duty he declines civilities, not 

 surlily, for he is essentially a good-tempered beast, but he 

 puts them aside as ill-timed. At an early age the frivolity 

 of puppyism departs from him, and he becomes a sedate 

 character. At home he shares his master's porrich ; lies 

 on the best place before the fire ; suffers with complacency 

 the caresses of the children, who tug his ears and tail, and 

 twist their little fingers into his long coat ; and, without 

 inviting familiarity from a stranger, receives him with dig- 

 nified courtesy. When accustomed to the road he will, in 

 his master's temporary absence, convey the flock or herd 

 steadily for ward, without either overpacing them or suffering 

 any to ramble ; and in the bustle of a fair he never becomes 

 unsteady or bewildered. But the hill or moor is his great 

 theatre. There his rare sagacity, his perfect education, and 

 his wonderful accomplishments, are most conspicuous. On 



