104 UP AND DOWN THE BROOKS. 



other brook haunted me for many a day, till, at 



last, going forth 

 once in April, a 

 friend and I made 

 the pilgrimage of 



Trito several miles and 



received our due 



reward. I would advise all goers after Water- 

 lizards to avoid taking a dog with them, espe- 

 cially a frisky dog. Such a one, black, with the 

 merriest eyes I ever saw on a dog, met us and in- 

 sisted on tagging. He was certain we were going 

 to do something that he was interested in, and he 

 invited himself with as much assurance as one 

 would think those old Grecian dogs might have 

 attained to in the days when polished Hellenes, 

 sending notes of invitation to their friends, were 

 wont to be courteous to the friends' dogs, also, and 

 request that they might be brought along. 



This dog had been taking a bath in some pool, 

 as his coat showed, and so enamored was he of 

 the water still, that he rushed at the little way- 

 side stream, plunging in with a vigor that would 

 have made dredging useless, if it had been at- 

 tempted. He came once to pat his paw down 

 where I was striving to find some inhabitant in 

 the mud. 



Fortunately that dog was left behind before 

 the brook was reached, otherwise the Water-liz- 

 ards might not have been caught. The water 



