274 THE SPANIEL. 



re-appearance ; and still, the day after, he was at his 

 post. Some persons made him a bed of straw, and 

 some brought him food, but to these testimonials of 

 kmdness and admiration he remained insensible, 

 rejecting both. He woidd run backwards and for- 

 wards, in great distress, upon the ice, but always 

 came back to the same sleeping place. He bit a 

 soldier who would have forced him away, who, fearing 

 that he was mad, fired at and wounded him. People 

 came in crowds to gaze at the poor spaniel ; and, at 

 last, a woman prevailed upon it to have its wound 

 dressed. She carried it home with her, and we 

 believe succeeded, after a lapse of time, in making it 

 again comfortable and happy. Of the thousand pet 

 spaniels of idle ladies, we sometimes hear remark- 

 able accounts of their cunning in eluding orders, given 

 before them, to which they were averse, relative to 

 their personal treatment. 



Springers and cockers are made use of in grey- 

 hound com'sing; but the cocker, who hunts closer, 

 and is not so full of bustle as the springer, is of the 

 more utility to the sportsman. Colonel Hawker 

 remarks, ^ith regard to spaniels, that they are, nine 

 times out of ten, so badly broken in, as in general to 

 be only fit to drive a large wood; but, if taught to 

 keep always mthin half a gmi-shot, they are the best 

 dogs in existence for workino- among hassocks and 

 briars. They should be trained veiy young, or they 

 require an unmerciful degree of flogging ; and it is 

 sometimes advisable, at first, to hunt them mth a 



