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and lasting attachment, and very intelligent. Their sense 

 of smelling is very acute, enabling them not only to dis- 

 tinguish different animals and persons, but to follow the 

 track of any one at a considerable distance. This faculty 

 renders them peculiarly useful in hunting. The dogs of 

 chase are distinguished by their different methods of dis- 

 covering their prey, such as the pointer, the setter, &c. : 

 some are suited to the chase of peculiar animals, as the 

 terrier for the rat. The Hound is the strongest of the dogs 

 of chase, particularly those species distinguished by the 

 name of blood-hound, and the Irish greyhound. 



The following anecdote is so truly humorous, that we 

 cannot resist its insertion : 



" When Garnck first came upon the stage, and one very 

 sultry evening, in the month of May, performed the cha- 

 racter of Lear, he, in the first four acts, received the 

 customary tokens of applause : at the conclusion of the 

 fifth, when weeping over the body of Cordelia, every eye 

 caught the soft infection, and the big round tear ran down 

 every cheek : at this interesting moment, to the astonish- 

 ment of all present, his face assumed a new character, and 

 his whole frame appeared agitated by a new passion ; it 

 was not tragic, for he was evidently endeavouring to 

 suppress a laugh ; in a few seconds the attendant nobles 

 appeared to be affected in the same manner; and the 

 beauteous Cordelia, who was reclined upon a crimson 

 couch, opening her eyes to see what occasioned the 

 interruption, leaped from her sofa, and, with the Majesty 

 of England, the gallant Albany, and tough old Kent, ran 

 laughing off the stage ! The audience could not account 

 for so strange a termination of a tragedy in any other way 

 than by supposing the dramatis personae were seized with 

 a sudden frenzy ; but their risibility had a different source. 



" A fat Whitechapel butcher, seated on the centre of the 

 first bench in the pit, was accompanied by his mastiff, 

 who, being accustomed to sit on the seat with his master 

 at home, naturally thought he might enjoy the same 

 privilege here ; the butcher sat quite back, and the quad- 

 ruped finding a fair opening, got upon the bench, and 

 fixing his fore paws on the rail of the orchestra, peered 

 at the performers with as upright an head, and as grave 

 an air, as the most sagacious critic of his day. Our 

 corpulent slaughterman was made of melting stuff, and not 

 being accustomed to play-house heat, found himself much 

 oppressed by the weight of a large and well-powdered 

 Sunday peruke, which, for the gratification of cooling and 



