2i6 ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES. 



and Kohl assures us that hunger itself will not tempt 

 these cats to tear their prey before the arrival of the 

 hunter. After the return of the Saracens from the Per- 

 sian conquest the. cattle of friend and foe got mixed, and 

 the Commander of the Faithful is said to have identified 

 the Arabian horses by the following test. He kept them 

 three days without a drop of water, and then let the 

 slaves drive them toward a river-bank. But in the 

 moment when they saw the water and rushed ahead to 

 quench their thirst he ordered the trumpeters to sound 

 an assembly call, and one-third of the famished beasts 

 actually wheeled around and galloped back to the camp. 

 The word ennui does not begin to express the misery in- 

 door life must inflict on dogs whose souls, like the Scotch 

 exiles', are roaming through the Highland fells. But 

 how resignedly do they await the pleasure of the com- 

 placent master who beguiles his leisure with page after 

 page of printed adventures which his dumb companions 

 can enjoy only in their dreams ! No words can be more 

 eloquent than the occasional inquiring look of a hunting- 

 dog, sick with hope deferred, but whose only protest 

 against martyrdom is his unbounded joy at the termina- 

 tion of it, when his master at last reaches for his hat and 

 takes down his shot-gun. 



The Hindoo fakir who fills his mouth with gall in ma- 

 jorem Dei gloriam cannot suffer more for Buddha's sake 

 than many a town dog has to suffer in the service of a 

 master who keeps a tan-yard or a chemical laboratory. 



