Dr. Cains. 



and the general surroundings of the quaint picture are 

 altogether in favour of .my supposition. 



We must now, hunter-like, jump over all obstacles, and 

 many years, until the time when Dr. Caius wrote, nearly 

 a century later than Juliana Berners. He " a doctor of 

 Phisicke in the Universitie of Cambridge " and a man 

 " exceeding skilled and sagacious in the investigation of 

 recondite matters/' wrote the first book on " Englishe 

 Dogges " in Latin, and one Abraham Fleming made the 

 translation, which he dedicated to the Dean of Ely. 

 Rychard Johnes printed the same in 1576, and sold it 

 i( over against St. Sepulchres Church without Newgate." 

 In 1880 Mr. L. U. Gill, 170, Strand, London, reprinted the 

 scarce volume in modern form, and such no doubt is the 

 reason why " A Treatisse of Englishe Dogges " has so 

 often been quoted. 



After informing us that all English dogs " be either of a 

 gentle kind, serving the game, a homely kind, apt for 

 sundry necessary uses, a currish kind, meet for many toys," 

 Dr. Caius describes the varieties of hounds as known in 

 his day, and then proceeds to tell us of the class with 

 which we have at present to do. This is " of a dogge 

 called terrar, in Latin Terrarius." Of him the old writer 

 says, " Another sorte there is which hunteth the Fox and 

 the Badger or Greye onely, whom we call Terrars, because 

 they (after the manner and custome of ferrets in searching 

 for Connyes) creep into the grounde, and by that meanes 

 make afrayde, nyppe and bite the Foxe and the Badger 

 in such sorte that eyther they teare them in pieces with 

 theyr teeth, beyng in the bosome of the earth, or else 

 hayle and pull them perforce out of theyr lurking angles, 

 darke dongeons, and close caues ; or at the least through 



