6 KRIDER'S SPORTING ANECDOTES. 



one, to satirize mankind. However, misan- 

 thropy apart, in sober prose it cannot be denied, 

 that from the moment Dash opens his eyes 

 on external things, he recognizes the presence 

 of man, and soon follows his footsteps as the 

 humblest and most devoted of his servitors. 

 Nay, many a sportsman has noticed the puppies 

 of a litter, not yet arrived at the momentous ninth 

 day, strive to lick the hand which caressed them, 

 and watched the superannuated pointer leave his 

 bed in the shade, and still cheerily constant to 

 his text, totter on to the field at the heels of his 

 master. Perhaps the reader has often been 

 amused, in the street, when observing the air of 

 grave importance with which one dog, after a 

 brief colloquy with another, will hurry on to join 

 his owner. There is something actually distress- 

 ing, too, in the anxiety manifested in the looks, 

 voice and actions of a lost dog. Superstition, as 

 usual, has appropriated to herself the prolonged 

 and melancholy howl, with which he' seems to 

 abandon himself to despair, when his search has 

 proved unavailing, and night, in a strange place, 

 settles down at last upon his houseless head. On 

 such occasions he will often seat himself on his 

 haunches beneath the nearest window, and, point- 

 ing his nose towards heaven, appal the ears of 



