ANECDOTES ABOUT DOGS 355 



picture of the other, as like as pin to pin or pear to 

 pear! 



Well, Squire Mills had an estate in Oxford- 

 shire, a hundred miles off at least; and there he used 

 to go twice a year to receive his rents, and he never 

 went, while he had those dogs, without taking one of 

 them with him. When the dog was tired he let him 

 go up into his chaise and ride, and when he was tired 

 of riding, the dog leaped out and jogged along again 

 till he was tired again. 



Squire Mills always stopped at the Mitre Inn 

 at Oxford, and it so happened, on one occasion, 

 that as his Setter followed him up the stable 

 yard, a great mastiff, which was chained to a kennel, 

 suddenly rushed out, seized on the Setter, and before 

 he could be beaten off, had very severely worried him. 

 Squire Mills was very angry, and the innkeeper made 

 many apologies, but that did not cure the dog's wounds, 

 and the Squire, who said he would rather have given 

 five pounds than the dog had been so used, set off 

 homeward in no very good humour. 



The dog, which seemed very much hurt, lay whining 

 and appearing very uneasy, in the bottom of the chaise, 

 all the way home, and when they got there the keeper 

 was ordered to pay every attention to him, and do all 

 that he could for him. But the dog lay in his kennel 

 for more than a week, and seemed in a very poor way, 

 indeed. He would not eat, and the keeper was very 

 doubtful what would be the upshot of it, when, one 

 morning he was very much surprised to find, both he 

 and his fellow dog missing. 



