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ARRIAN 



CilAP. IX. 



Bedding. 



thereby affectionately attached — pleased with the contact of the 

 human body, and as fond of their bedfellow as of their feeder. ^ 

 If any ailing affect the dog, the man will perceive it, and will 

 relieve him in the night, when thirsty, or urged by any call of 

 nature. He will also know how the dog has rested. For if 



C^nosoph. 1. A short section of the Cynosophiuni is given to kennel management — icwas 



p. JX)A. fibril, iivdpdyiraiv KOifxaffdai koXSv vpaus yap e/c tovtov yivovrai, Kol (piKapOpurrot, Koi 



euKoAois KttKovvrai — a practical allurement of canine affection heretofore more com- 

 mon than at present. Modern refinement would ill bear the intimate association 

 recommended by Arrian and Demetrius, and practised by James V. of Scotland, with 

 his favourite Bagsche, who was wont 



Sir D. Lynd- 



say's Coraplaynt 

 of Bagsche. 



To lap upon the king is bed. 



With claith of gold thoch it were spred. 



Indeed, we rarely see the high-bred and elegant Celtic hound within the vestibule of 

 a modem dwelling ; though heretofore, in the hall of banquet, 



Lay of the Last 

 Minstrel. 



The stag-hounds, weary of the chase, 

 Lay stretch'd upon the rushy floor. 



And urged in dreams the forest race 

 From Teviot-stone to Eskdale-moor. 



iMagstcr o( 

 ©anir. c. xx. 



fol. 71. 



Whether the Duke of York's "cliilde" lay M;i</i the hounds, I know not ; but it 

 seems that he did, though not with the intention specified by our author : " alway hi 

 nyght and hi day I wil that some childe lye or be in the kenel with the houndes for 

 to kepe hem from fyghteng," &c. 



1 no where find the close cutaneous contact of man and dog, enjoined in the text, 

 recommended in the ancient Cynegetica ; but Xenophon advises an intimate acquain- 

 tance between the parties in the kennel at the hours of feeding, &c. : if the hounds be 

 fed by the huntsman, they become attached to his person, rhv SiSovra <n4pyovffiv, 

 Encyc. Method. &c. (c. vi.) : and so if the Veltrarii (" les valets de levriers, qui exercent les levriers, 

 et qui les lachent a la courre ") superintend the feeding their charge, the attachment 

 thereby produced will render actual cohabitation unnecessary. 



Les chasses. 

 p. 434. 



Natalis Comes 



de Venatione. 



L.I. 



Quod superest, celeris catuli cui credita cura, 

 Nutriat illecebris hunc, et sibi jungat amore. 

 Sic facile et noto domino parere jubenti 

 Disceret, acceptisque sequi vestigia signis. 



