444 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



g:uessm2: the asylum he had chosen, steals forth by 

 nisht, and finding him as described, caresses and brings 

 him back. The good man tries every gentle way that 

 kmdness could devise to make him eat : but a short 

 time afterwards, the dog escaping, regained his favorite 

 place, 



O, man ! give faith to a sacred truth. Three months 

 passed away, during every morning of which the 

 mourner returned to his loving protector merely to 

 receive his food, and then retired to the ashes of his 

 dead master ; and each day he was more sad, more 

 meagre, and more languishing. 



His protector at length endeavoured to wean him 

 by tying him up, but he broke his chain, returned to 

 the grave, and never quitted it more ! It was in vain 

 that all kind means were used to bring him back. He 

 would eat no longer ; and for four-and-twenty hours he 

 was observed to employ his weakened limbs digging up 

 the earth that separated him from his master. But his 

 efforts were too vehement for his power ; his whole 

 frame became convulsed ; he shrieked in his struggles ; 

 his attached and generous heart gave way, and he 

 breathed his last gasp with his eyes fixed on the grave, 

 as if he knew he had found and again should be per- 

 mitted to associate with his master. 



In the Sporting Magazine, for 1815, appeared the 

 following observations on the spaniel : — 



" This breed of dogs, from the superiority of pointers 

 during the first sporting months, and from their having 

 been found adequate to all purposes where the covers 

 are light, throughout the season, has of late years been 

 greatly neglected ; insomuch that the well-bred spaniel 

 is now rarely to be met with. As a proof of this, sel- 

 dom do we see a whole litter of puppies like each 

 other in marks and colour ; nor when grown up, do 



