NATUflAMST S CABINET. 



labours performed by dogs in Holland. 



situation of the lamb all this time cannot be pic- 

 tmvd; he matje every possible attempt to pass 

 the boy, and even endeavoured to mount the pa- 

 rapet, as if determined to jump into the river, 

 rather than not follow the dog. This continued 

 till the prospect closed, and we had lost sight of 

 our new ally, whose unexpected offer of amity to 

 Spot, seemed ever after to operate as a friendly 

 admonition; for from that day, he was cured of 

 following sheep." 



Mr. Pratt informs us, that in Holland, dogs 

 are constrained to promote the trade of the re- 

 public ; insomuch that (excepting the great dogs 

 of state, which run before or after their lords' 

 and ladies' equipages, and, in imitation of their 

 betters, are above being of any use) there is not 

 an idle dog, of any size in the Seven Provinces. 

 " You see them in harness," says he, " at all 

 parts of the Hague, and some other towns, tug- 

 ging at barrows, and little carts, with their 

 tongues almost sweeping the ground, and their 

 poor hearts almost ready to beat through their 

 sides: frequently three, five, and sometimes six 

 a-breast, carrying men and merchandise, with 

 the speed of little horses. In the walk, from the 

 Hague gate to Scheveling, you will meet,, at all 

 hours of the day, an . ncredible number loaded 

 with fish and men, under the burden of which 

 they run off at a long trot, and sometimes, when 



