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brought into the stable, who at once detected the scent of the misci-eant, 

 and traced it more than twenty miles. He then stopped at a door, whence 

 no power could move him. Being at length admitted, he ran to the top 

 of the house, and, bursting open the door of a garret, found the object that 

 he sought in bed, and would have torn him to pieces, had not the hunts- 

 man, who had followed him on a fleet horse, rushed up after him. 



Somerville thus describes the use to which he was generally put, in pur- 

 suit of the robber : 



" Soon the sagacious brute, his curling tail 

 Flourished in air, low bending, plies around 

 His busy nose, the steaming vapour snuffs 

 Inquisitive, nor leaves one turf untried, 

 Till, conscious of the recent stains, his heart 

 Beats quick. His snuffing nose, his active tail, 

 Attest his joy. Then, with deep opening mouth, 

 That makes the welkin tremble, he proclaims 

 Th' audacious felon. Foot by foot he marks 

 His winding way. Over the watery ford, 

 Dry sandy heaths, and stony barren hills, 

 Unerring he pursues, till at the cot 

 Arrived, and, seizing by his guilty throat 

 The caitiff vile, redeems the captive prey." 



THE SETTER 



is evidently the large spaniel improved to his peculiar size and beauty, 

 and taught another way of marking his game, viz., by setting or crouch- 

 ing. If the form of the dog were nofr sufficiently satisfactory on this point, 

 we might have recourse to history for information on it. Mr. Daniel, in 

 his Rural Sports, has preserved a document, dated in the year 1685, in 

 which a yeoman binds himself for the sum of ten shillings, fully and 



