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a pretty girl," be sprang over it like a deer. 

 " Cartouche, let the ladies and gentlemen hear you 

 preach a sermon," he instantly leaped into the chair, 

 sat on his hind quarters, began barking violently till 

 I told him to stop. I had a small bow made 

 for him in wood, in the semicircle of which was 

 fixed three small lanterns, one at each end and one 

 in the centre, having wax tapers. In the part which re- 

 presented the string of the bow the centre was padded 

 with leather, that the dog might not be annoyed when 

 carrying the three lanterns attached to the bow, which 

 hung perpendicular over his head. When the tapers 

 were lighted, Cartouche took the padded part carefully 

 into his mouth, and walked steadily before me from my 

 lodgings to the college during the winter evenings, to 

 the no small amusement of the persons who met him. 

 At dinner, if you put a piece of meat on his nose when 

 he was sitting up, he would not touch it till you said, 

 " Make ready, present, fire I" when he caught it in his 

 mouth. If you offered him anything with the left 

 hand he would not take it, but as soon as you changed 

 to the right he immediately seized it. One of his 

 tricks, which surprised any party who witnessed its per- 

 formance, was done with cards. (I was tolerably skilful 

 in sleight-of-hand tricks with cards).* 



I always prefaced this trick by telling the company 

 that I would show part of a pack of cards to a lady or 

 gentleman, and on one of them fixing on a card I would 

 throw them with their faces upwards to one end of the 

 room. Cartouche lying by my order at a considerable 



* I leivraed sereral of these tricks from the late General Le Marchant, 

 Lieut.-Govemor of High "Wycomlie, -who was killed at the battle of 

 Salamanca. 



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