580 THE AMERICAN BOOK OF THE DOG. 



the business. It looked to him altogether too much likt 

 fighting to comport with his ideas of peace. 



Doctor Campbell, the noted blind American, now resi- 

 dent in England, was going over his grounds with his 

 Champion Lily II., when she interfered with his progress 

 in one direction, and when he did not comprehend her, and 

 persisted in going on, caught him by the leg, and not a step 

 would she let him move. Then he called on a member of 

 his family for explanations, and it transpired that he was 

 on the point of walking into a deep ditch lately dug on his 

 grounds, with which he was unacquainted. 



The famous Old Champion Turk was a dog of the very 

 highest courage, fearing nothing that lived, yet when a cat 

 boldly kittened in his kennel, Turk guarded the little 

 strangers with the utmost vigilance. 



Gipsey, Lion, Ginger, Lee's Turk, Boadicea, and Winifred 

 all had the strong disposition to accompany members of the 

 families when they went away from home, particularly if 

 the person was a woman or a child. It was some trouble 

 to coax Lion to go off the place with a man, and almost 

 impossible to do so in daylight; but if a woman went away 

 at night, he would use every endeavor to go with her, and if 

 he couldn't go, would fume and fret in the most vexed 

 style. Gipsey would never let my four-year-old boy go off 

 the place alone without getting up and going with him. Any 

 of the dogs I have mentioned, when in charge of any person 

 on a walk at night, might stray a considerable distance away 

 from their charge; but let them hear a strange footstep, andj, 

 they would immediately draw near the person they were 

 escorting, and remain near until the strange footstep was 

 lost in the distance. These are but specimen bricks from 

 many kilnfuls that I could deliver; and it will be noted 

 that in no case did the Mastiff resort to violence, gentle 

 means in each case proving sufficient. 



But will a Mastiff attack, rend, and tear if occasion 

 demands? Listen: Lion was accustomed to working-men 

 coming around my place in their working-clothes, and 

 beyond keeping a careful watch over them, and occasion- 



