344 ALL ABOUT DOGS 



in front of the horse ; this was too much for Laird, who 

 sprang from the wall into the road and pinned the dog, 

 and before the man could pull up his horse, the wheels 

 of the cart had gone over the fighting dogs in the road 

 with fatal effects on one of the combatants, as Laird, 

 without a whimper, though he must have been seri- 

 ously injured, walked slowly into the house, lay down 

 in his own box, and died then and there ! 



Another case of sudden antipathy I remember 

 was between two Skye Bitches of mine, Laura and 

 Lucy (winners of some fifty prizes at all the best 

 shows, while they were about), I bought, on the dis- 

 persal of Mrs. Jacobson's kennel, after her lamented 

 death. She was a genuine fancier, and sports- 

 woman, and all her dogs were sure to be " work- 

 ers," and thoroughly game. One of them was 

 drop-eared, and the other prick-eared, and for a 

 long time they were the best of friends, and not only 

 lived together in one kennel, but used to go to shows 

 often considerable distances, such as Edinburgh, Dar- 

 lington, and other places in a long low wicker basket, 

 which just suited them without any partition or divi- 

 sion in it. But one day they had some difference of 

 opinion, the cause of which I do not know, but there 

 were " ructions," and they never could be trusted to- 

 gether again without the certainty of " war to the 

 knife." 



James Hogg, well known as the Ettrick shepherd, 

 declares in his " Shepherd's Calendar " that dogs know 

 what is said on subjects in which they are interested. 

 A farmer had a dog that for three or four years in the 



