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in Cumberland, has at present a sheep-dog in his pos- 

 session which attends church every sabbath during the 

 niorning service. As soon as the bell commences 

 ringing, the dog shows symptoms of considerable 

 anxiety ; and after a few peals have been rung, he may 

 be seen proceeding towards the sacred edifice, unac- 

 companied by any one. Perhaps the most extraordi- 

 nary fact is, that he never attends the church but on 

 Sundays, although the bells ring frequently during the 

 week. 



A Word for the Dumb Creation. — During sultry 

 weather, all persons who keep dogs and horses, will, 

 if they be thoughtful and humane, give them free 

 access to water, and plenty of it. The annual English 

 epidemic, a horror of mad dogs and hydrophobia, when 

 at its full height, causes magistrates even to issue or- 

 dinances for the destruction of all dogs found at large. 

 It would be much more to the purpose if they provided 

 fountains at which the poor creatures could quench 

 their thirst. In Portugal, and other hot countries, 

 where dogs are much more numerous than here, and 

 many of them ownerless, the disease called hydro- 

 phobia is unknown, because there they have the liberty 

 of assuaging the intensity of thirst at their option, 

 which is the ^reat preventative against this fatal 

 malady. 



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