90 MY OLD BOG TRIM. 



plenty I was generally rewarded by seeing him come bound- 

 ing into open, and, after a stride or two, strike an attitude, 

 the memory of which, even now, after the lapse of nearly 

 forty years, causes my heart to bound with del'ght, and sends 

 the hot blood tingling to my fingers ends. When Trim made 

 a point there was a magnetic, inspiriting sympathy, amongst 

 all beholders, that I can compare to nothing excepting to the 

 sensation of an electric shock, and I have yet to see the dog 

 that will cause my hair to rise to the elevation it obtained 

 when viewing his psrformances. I cannot better djscribe 

 this feeling than to quote the language of a wood-chopping 

 Irishman, near whom Trim came to point. When we came 

 up the man had dropped his axe and stood looking at him 

 with heaving chest, gaping mouth and wide open eye3. 

 "Look at him!" he said; "did yees iver see the likes of 

 that : howly Moses, how my hair riz up and the cowld chills 

 run up my back when he tuck the scent ; if the howly 

 virgin shud telL me there want twinty burds just forninst 

 him, by my sow'l I'd belave the dog furst," 



As an instance of his wonderful power of fascination I 

 cannot forbear relating a little incident that afforded us many 

 days of first-rate sport. We were hunting close to the farm 

 of a man who never allowed shooters to set foot on his prem- 

 ises. Trim came to a point a few yards from the line, and 

 as we came up to him we observed the mm leaning on the 

 fence, looking on. " Hold on," said he, "I want to come 

 over and see tha^ dog." We cordially invited him, and the 

 old man became quite excited. "Why," said he, " I hain't 

 been so woke up since my old stags runaway with the plow ; 

 see that consarned dog's hair turn toward his head — it beats 

 all creation !" We flushed and killed the bird and the old 

 man was perfeclly delighted. Af ier telling us he came out 

 to keep us off his land, he gave us a pressing invitation, 

 which he did not have to repeat, to go over and hunt in his 

 woods, and he would go with us as he wanted to see that 

 dog perform some more. It is needless to say that we went, 

 and not only had a go 3d time, but a good dinner, bMh of 

 which were repeated on many subsequent occasions, for he 



