14 SETTLING A MEDDLESOME OLD GENTLEMAN. 



my house, as my name is up in large letters over the 

 door. Yes, sir." During the voyage my dogs were an 

 object of interest to all, and I was requested to let them 

 come in fine weather to the upper deck ; but I did not do 

 so, for had a lady's glove or handkerchief blown over the 

 side of the ship, dear Brutus would have leaped after it, 

 and Druid is never safe among strangers. With the 

 sailors my dogs were such favourites that no orders I 

 could enforce would prevent their getting too fat ; every 

 jolly fellow would give them a "bit of his grub" when 

 ever he had any himself, and this with confinement 

 militated much against condition. The dogs were all 

 sea-sick, and so was the ship's cow ; so no disgrace to the 

 sea-going stomachs of my kennel ! The only occasion on 

 which I had cause to be angry during the voyage out 

 was when from the upper deck I heard all my dogs rav 

 ing with fury, Druid's and Brutus's voices being of course 

 predominant. I knew that my servant George suffered 

 from the sea, so my attention was always alive to the 

 things he had under his charge, but could not duly look 

 to. On going forward, to my astonishment, I found an 

 elderly cabin passenger, grey enough to have known bet 

 ter, stirring my favourites up with a stick, and amusing 

 himself with their fury at not being able to punish him. 

 " Ho, sir ! " I exclaimed, as I arrived unexpectedly at 

 his elbow, " don't you think there's danger in thus teas 

 ing my inoffensive dogs, with the deep sea so near ? " 

 He coloured, said nothing, and walked away, and I never 

 ha'd further occasion to notice him, or complain of such 

 wanton aggression. 



I had not been long in the society of gentlemen from 

 the United States before I learned that to tell untruths 

 was not to lie. To tell an American " he lies," is to 



