CHARACTER OF THE DOG. 9 



of sledge or driver, from the incumbrance of the 

 last of which they, indeed, speedily rid them- 

 selves. We have heard it acknowledged in the 

 far west, where Tray has sometimes been set to 

 churn or to spin, that, like most other unwilling 

 servitors, if not closely watched, he is seldom to 

 be found when his services are most particularly 

 required. The man who would advocate the 

 propriety of placing a dog in a cart or a tread- 

 mill, deserves to be shunned by the entire canine 

 race ; and where, we would ask, is the- Pharisee 

 of such superlative leaven as to deny all sympa- 

 thy with that scarcely less noble being, whom 

 the proudest monarchs and mightiest minds of 

 the universe, in every age, have made their com- 

 panion? 



What ! force Hark, Beppo, Towser and Dash 

 not to speak of Silver, Mountain and Blanche, 

 whom Shakspeare has immortalized -force these 

 to work ! Why, what would the dogs of Egypt, 

 who once had divine honors paid to them, say to 

 this? Reflect, gentle reader, how our Leather- 

 stocking that familiar and much admired crea- 

 tion of the genius which has recently died from 

 among us reflect how he would have looked, if 

 some pumpkin-headed squatter had demanded 

 the loan of his hound, to set in a rustic tread- 



