18 KRIDEIVS SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



tion to resist oppression to the last; and, lastly, 

 a violent dissolution of the league, consequent 

 upon the signal defeat of the two tyrants. 



We will now relate a few examples of the 

 inveterate pertinacity with which dogs that have 

 once worried sheep, seize every opportunity of 

 indulging, by stealth, in their flagitious inclina- 

 tions; of the cunning which they display in 

 endeavoring to elude detection, and of the arti- 

 fices which they make use of, to induce other 

 better disposed individuals to join them in their 

 marauding expeditions. These have been long 

 known to the world, and still furnish a favorite 

 theme, on a winter's night, at the farmer's fire- 

 side. 



Not a villager but has his say on the subject ; 

 not a herdsman but can add his woful experience 

 of the slaughter. Sixty, seventy, and even a 

 hundred sheep, worried in a single night, have 

 been the astounding effects of this destructive 

 propensity. In parts of the country where large 

 flocks are raised, the dog, as representing his 

 race, figures full as often in the imagination of 

 the youthful grazier on the prongs of a good steel 

 pitchfork, as he does, when arrayed in his glory, 

 as "honest Tray" or "faithful Towser," of the 

 school book. 



