374 ALL ABOUT DOGS 



daily for a month, Sundays excepted, and kill a goose 

 by the roadside each day of his travels, provided birds 

 were put within his reach. His skin was preserved, and 

 has been stuffed. The ' Brighton Coach Dog ' may be 

 seen in the attitude of life in the bar parlour of a tavern 

 in the Edgeware Road." 



I do not think I mentioned, when speaking of 

 my kennels, and dogs, that for many years, an 

 old Great Western Railway coach formed part of 

 them, it was composed of a first-class, second- 

 class, third-class compartments, and a luggage van, as 

 a general rule, we had a pair of dogs, male and female, 

 in each division, and used the luggage van for biscuits. 



As some of my readers may like to try the same ex- 

 periment, I may say that there is no difficulty in the 

 way, there are usually railway coaches of different 

 sizes (I believe, you can also purchase horse boxes 

 and trucks, which often serve the purpose of cow and 

 poultry and cart and trap sheds) for sale at Swindon, 

 where I bought mine for five pounds. 



Of course, it was merely the body, without any 

 of the iron under part, but with the windows, doors, 

 seats, ventilators, etc., no cushions or upholstery 

 of any kind, but the only expense I had to incur 

 was to get the village smith to fix some small 

 iron bars on the outside of each window frame, 

 to enable us to open the windows to give plenty 

 of air, without the fear of the inmates getting out. The 

 company delivered free to their nearest station, which 

 in my case was within two miles from my place, and I 

 there had a trolly and pair of horses, and the coach run 



