38 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



of winter afar off, as a chill wind sighs through 

 the fading foliage, or mournfully rustles the 

 withered leaves. Poor Ponto! though he feel 

 not the strange delight which waits upon the 

 change of season though he knows not the twi- 

 light hour, yet well it becomes him to live the 

 comrade of kings and princes, and well he de- 

 serves to be remembered by the genius which 

 hallows the scene. 



Bulwer, Burns, Byron and Scott, have all 

 owned strong sympathies with the dog. 



If our young friends should be fond of field 

 sports, they should never rate the value of Ponto 

 solely by his professional accomplishments of 

 finding and pointing game. As he is the zeal- 

 ous adjutor and partaker of your diversions, he 

 should also, in some measure, be your compa- 

 nion and your friend. 



You may smile, but well will it be with you , 

 when the flush of youth is passed, if you do not 

 then rate his fidelity higher than the standard of 

 friendship, as it exists in the gay world. 



You will find nothing superior in pathos to the 

 tales which are told of the faithfulness of the 

 dog. 



It is not many months since we saw in the 

 public prints, an account of a party of hunters, 



