276 DOGS: THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



You get the mistress to take the favorite upon tier lap, 

 and request she will oblige you by pinching the skin. 

 " Oh, harder ; pray, a little harder, madam!" Never- 

 theless, all your entreaties cannot move the kind mistress 

 to do that which she fears will pain her pet ; whereon 

 you request permission to be permitted to make a trial ; 

 and it being granted, you seize the coat, and give the 

 animal one of the hardest pinches of which your fore- 

 finger and thumb, compressed with all your might, are 

 capable. The animal turns its head round and licks your 

 hand, to reward the polite attention, and solicits a con- 

 tinuance of your favors. The skin is thick and insensi- 

 ble. "What teeth remain, are covered with tartar, and 

 the breath smells like a pestilence. 



The dog is taken home, and an allowance of whole- 

 some rice and gravy placed before it, with one ounce of 

 meat by weight. The flesh is greedily devoured, but the 

 other mess remains untouched. The next day the un- 

 touched portion is removed, and fresh supplied ; also the 

 same meat as before, which is consumed ere the hand 

 which presented the morsel is retracted, the head being 

 raised to ask for more. 



The second day, however, the gravy and rice are 

 eaten, and the meat on the morrow is deficient ; gravy 

 and rice for the future constituting the animal's fare. 

 Then, for physic, an embrocation containing one-third of 

 turpentine is used thrice daily, to rub the animal's back, 

 neck, and belly with. Some of the cathartic pills are 

 given over night, with the castor-oil mixture in the morn- 



