50 REMINISCENCES OF A SPORTSMAN. 



CHAP. XXXV. 



SPORTING DOGS.— SETTERS. — SPANIELS. — A SPANIEL'S AFFECTION. — 

 WATER-SPANIELS. — ANECDOTE. — THE CAPTAIN's FITNERAL. — MAL- 

 BROOK's ACHIEVEMENTS. — A FAITHFUL DOG.' — THE AVOLF DOG. 

 — THE IRISH WOLF DOG. — HOMMAGE ATI ROI. — BRUNO.- — 

 LLEWELYN'S GELERT. 



INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUHENT OF A NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. 



" When some proud son of man returns to earth, 

 Unknown to glory but upheld by birth, 

 The sculptor's art exhausts the pomp of woe. 

 And storied m-ns record who rests below. 

 When all is done, upon the tomb is seen 

 Not what he was, biit what he should have been. 

 But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend. 

 The first to welcome, foremost to defend ; 

 "Whose honest heart is still his master's own, 

 Who laboiu-s, fights, lives, breathes, for him alone, 

 TJnhonoured falls, unnotic'd aU his worth. 

 Denied in Heaven the soul he held on earth ; 

 Wliile man, vain insect ! hopes to be forgiven. 

 And claims himself a sole exclusive Heaven. 

 Oh Man ! thou feeble tenant of an hour, 

 Debas'd by slavery or corrupt by power ; 

 Who knows thee well must quit thee with disgust, 

 Degraded mass of animated dust ! 

 Thy love is lust, thy fi'iendship all a cheat, 

 Thy smiles hj'pocrisy, thy words deceit ! 

 By nature vile, ennobled but by name, 

 Each kindred brute might bid thee blush for shame. 

 Ye who perchance behold this simple urn, 

 Pass on — it honours none you wish to mourn : 

 To mark a friend's remains these stones arise, — 

 I never knew but one, and here he lies." 



Gentlemen who derive their amusements chiefly from 

 field sports should pay particular attention to the health 



