\J2 SIR WALTER SCOTT AND HIS DOGS. 



her seat near her master, and was presented from time to 

 time with bits from the table. Puss, it appears, was a 

 great favorite both with master and mistress, and slept in 

 their room at night ; and Scott laughingly said that one 

 of the least wise parts of the family arrangement was the 

 leaving the window open at night for puss to go in and 

 out. The cat assumed a sort of supremacy among the 

 quadrupeds, sitting in state in Scott's arm-chair, and occa- 

 sionally stationing himself on a chair beside the door, as 

 if to review his subjects as they passed, giving each dog 

 a cuff on the ears as he went by. This clapper-clawing 

 was always amiably taken. It appeared to be in fact a 

 mere act of sovereignty on the part of Grimalkin, to remind 

 the others of their vassalage, to which they cheerfully sub- 

 mitted. Perfect harmony prevailed between old puss and 

 her subjects, and they would all sleep contentedly together 

 in the sunshine. 



Scott once said, the only trouble about having a dog 

 was that he must die ; but he said, it was better to have 

 them die in eight or nine years, than to go on loving 

 them for twenty or thirty, and then have them die. 



Scott lived to lose many of his favorites, that were 

 buried with funeral honors, and had monuments erected 

 over them, which form some of the prettiest ornaments of 

 Abbotsford. When we visited the place, one of the first, 

 objects we saw in the front yard near the door was the 



