ANECDOTES ABOUT DOGS 345 



latter part of his life, met him at the foot of his farm, 

 about a mile and a half from his house, on his way 

 home. If he was away half a day, a week, or a fort- 

 night, it was all the same, she met him at that spot, 

 there was never an instance known of her going 1 to 

 meet him, on a wrong day, and she could only know 

 when he was coming back, by hearing it mentioned in 

 the family. 



I have had many dogs who knew Sunday per- 

 fectly well, whether by hearing the church bells, or 

 other indications of the day, I do not know, but al- 

 though wild to go if they saw me going out at any 

 other time, on that day, they would take no 

 notice nor make any attempt to follow me. 



In the same way I have had many thin-coated 

 dogs such as Bull and English Terriers, Smooth 

 Toys and Pugs, who would not go out will- 

 ingly in wet weather, but Sheep Dogs, Dalmatians, 

 Deerhounds, Dandies, Scottish, Skyes and Wirehaired 

 Fox Terriers, take no notice of it, beyond occasionally 

 shaking themselves, to get rid of some of the water. 



Another of Hogg's tales is as follows : " One of my 

 Sheep dogs, named Hector, was very keen in picking 

 up what was said before him." One day Hogg said to 

 his mother, " I am going to Bowerhope to-morrow for 

 a fortnight, but I will not take Hector with me, for he 

 is constantly quarrelling with the rest of the dogs/' 

 Hector was present and must have overheard 

 the conversation, as next morning he was miss- 

 ing, and when Hogg reached Bowerhope, Hec- 

 tor was sitting on a hillock, waiting his ar- 



