10 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



mill. We think we see the indignant old hunter 

 grasping "Killdeer" like a vice, as, with back- 

 woods emphasis, he tells the oaf that "the thing 

 aire out of reason and agin all natur." When 

 your dog degenerates and becomes vicious, then, 

 if you are conscientiously opposed to capital 

 punishment, condemn him, if you please, to hard 

 labor ; but while he is equal to the sample of his 

 race, ennobled as it is by the unanimous decree 

 of mankind, for your sake, as well as his own, 

 treat him. accordingly. 



We will now, with the reader's permission, 

 relate an example of the curious effect which this 

 forced derogation of character, once produced <m 

 the conduct of a respectable house-dog. 



A gentleman was walking along the main street 

 of the fine old borough of German town, when he 

 was met by a large dog harnessed to a sort of 

 tilbury, in which was seated a diminutive invalid, 

 the son of a storekeeper in the place. The boy 

 held the lines in his hand, with an important 

 look on his pale face ; but the aspect of the dog 

 was sulky and malapropos, as if keenly conscious 

 of his degradation. With his tail down and his 

 ears back, he moved on slowly and unwillingly 

 enough, until a setter, which was in attendance 

 upon the pedestrian, came up, and halting on the 



