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follies and Ms vices, and held him. up to the 

 contempt of the world. If this story were true, 

 Byron and his "bull-dog should have "been served in 

 the same manner that Lieutenant Bowling served 

 Roderick Random's "brutal cousin and his quadruped 

 auxiliaries. Tiger should have been silenced with a 

 blow from a shillelah; and his master floored by a 

 right-handed hit between the eyes, and afterwards 

 kicked as he lay, ad putorem usque, as a reward 

 for his unmanly conduct. I think I know one 

 living poet who would have done it, had he been 

 served so, and have made the jackals grin on the 

 wrong side of the face had he observed them encou- 

 raging the fun by their sardonic smiles, ad exam- 

 plar regis, after the fashion of the lion, upon whom 

 they then fawned, when living, but preyed, like 

 unclean animals as they were, upon his carcase 

 when dead. It is no joke to have a bull-dog within 

 a couple of yards of you, watching an opportunity 

 to rush in and seize you by the throat. I know what 

 the feeling is, and therefore am disposed to think 

 very indifferently of the man who would wantonly 

 place another in such a situation. I was once pass- 

 ing over a lonely moor in the north of England, 

 when I came suddenly upon a gipsey's encamp- 

 ment, and before I perceived any of the party, a long- 

 backed, bow-legged, brindled bull-dog made towards 

 me, shewing his formidable teeth, and eyes glaring 

 with rage. I stood still the moment I saw him, and 

 he was just crouching preparatory to a spring, when 

 his master, who had observed him rush from under 



