with gates at each end, and shut the brute out : 

 but he perfectly understood my tactics — curse his 

 intelligence ! — and waited for me at the other 

 gate. After vainly trying to escape him in this 

 way, I shut him in, and stayed outside myself. 

 When I walked away, he saw that he had been 

 out-generalled by human reason, and set up the 

 most ludicrous howl that I ever heard in my life. 



In 1850 Lord Macau lay writes : — 



How odd that people of sense should find any 



pleasure in being accompanied by a beast who 



is always spoiling conversation. 



To Flush, my Dog 'Qy x o "v> ^> 



T OVING friend, the gift of one 

 -■ — * Who her own true faith has run 



Through thy lower nature, 1 

 Be my benediction said 

 With my hand upon thy head, 



Gentle fellow-creature ! 



1 This dog was the gift of my dear and admired friend, 

 Miss Mitford, and belongs to the beautiful race she lias 

 rendered celebrated among English and American readers. 

 The Hushes have their laurels as well as the Caesars, the 

 chief difference (at least the very head and front of it) con- 

 sisting, perhaps, in the bald head of the latter under the 

 crown. — 1844. 



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