272 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



is enforced with the supplicatory whine that seldom fails, 

 Piece after piece is thereby extracted ; and dogs fed in 

 this fashion will eat much more than if the whole were 

 placed before them at one time. The animal becomes 

 enormously fat, and then one day is found by the mis- 

 tress with its legs dragging after it. The lady inquires 

 which of the servants have been squeezing the dog in 

 the door. All deny that they have been so amusing them- 

 selves, and every one protests that she had not heard 

 poor Fanny cry. The mistress' wrath is by no means 

 allayed. Servants are so careless such abominable 

 liars and the poor dog was no favorite down stairs. 

 Thereupon Fanny is wrapped in a couple of shawls, and 

 despatched to the nearest veterinary surgeon. . 



If the gentleman who may be consulted knows his 

 business, he returns for answer, " The dog is too fat," 

 and must for the future be fed more sparingly that it 

 has been squeezed in no door that none of the vertebrae 

 are injured, but the animal is suffering from an attack of 

 paralysis. He sends some physic to be given, and some 

 embrocation to rub on the back. The mistress is by no 

 means satisfied. She protests the man's a fool declares 

 she alone knows the truth but, despite her knowledge, 

 does as the veterinary surgeon ordered. Under the 

 treatment the dog recovers ; after which every one 

 feeds it, and everybody accuses the other of doing that 

 which the doctor said was not to be done. At length the 

 animal has a second visitation, which is more slowly 

 removed than was the first ; but it at last yields ; till the 



