12 THE BELVOIR HUNT. 



in existence at the commencement of the 

 eighteenth century. I imagine, however, he 

 must have hunted with the Badsworth when 

 Mr Bricrht was the master, as the name oc- 

 curs in a curious poem descriptive of a run 

 with these hounds in the year 1 730. 



Highly amusing are the imaginations of 

 naturaHsts, who argue that the primitive 

 variety of the canine tribe bore the charac- 

 ter of sheep-dogs ; and then, again, to what 

 description of sheep-dog did they set their 

 affections, for they are as widely different 

 as two animals of the same species well can 

 be ? There is the Scotch collie dog, with 

 smooth coat, sharp nose, erect ears, and 

 bushy tail, barely more than fifteen or six- 

 teen inches high, to be compared with the 

 breed more commonly used in England, 

 measuring five or six and twenty inches in 

 height, with curly coat, prehensile ears, and 

 a bob tail ; and I shall be glad to be en- 

 lightened as to which variety of these two 



