123 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



mo a jirinted circular from Mr. George Jesse, in 

 respect to ^'Hydropliobia/' and a projected new Bill 

 for its j^revention, as his circular says, ^^now before 

 Parliament." There are many opinions promiil- 

 g*ated in Mr. Jesse's letter which are strictly 

 correct, but some of those professional gentlemen 

 whom ho (juotes have propagated many errors 

 respecting the canine race, and Mr. Jesse himself 

 talks about educating the people as an assistant 

 remedy for the bettor care of and estimation of 

 dogs ! This is a fashionable fallacy, for I suppose 

 Mr. Jesse would deem the late Charles Dickens 

 an educated man — in that particular far above many 

 of his fellows ; but the late Mr. Dickens in his 

 writings always used the name of that most faithful 

 animal as a term of reproach^ and when he wished 

 to paint tlie abominably hideous features of his 

 frightful dwarf Quilp, frightful in mind and body, 

 the illustration used by that educated man, Mr. 

 Dickens, was to liken the expression of his beastly 

 hero's face to that of ^^ a panting dog." 



The fate of the Durham hounds ought to tend 

 to the most serious explanations ; and the preven- 

 tion of future mistakes, without mixing the 

 matter up with any fashionable folly wliieli now 



