444 DOGS : THEIR MANAGEMENT. 



attached to his father's residence. There is no legislation 

 required to meet such cases. No doubt the pleasure felt 

 by the delighted child was shared by the beast, who 

 wagged his tail, and scarcely felt the tax imposed upon 

 its huge strength. Had the cart been removed from the 

 lawn to the road, and been knocked up with rough 

 wheels and without springs, like the carts used by va- 

 grant poor are, the load of a child would not even then 

 have made the cases similar. To make the instances the 

 same, the cart must not only be of the rudest construc- 

 tion, but it must be filled with weight limited solely by 

 the master's capacity to buy ; while on the top of the 

 burthen must be placed, not a happy child, but an idle 

 full grown rascal. And the vehicle thus encumbered 

 must be dragged, not along a soft lawn, at a pace neces- 

 sary to please the son and heir, but along a hard road, 

 at a rate which alone can satisfy an impatient and brutal 

 master. 



In whichever way we regard this question, reason 

 proves against it, and the dog subject to the most dread- 

 ful disease that is communicable to man should on no 

 account, in this densely populated country, be subjected 

 to usage best calculated to bring on the malady. 



FRACTURES. 



A FRACTURE is technically called a solution of con- 

 tinuity ; but, as the general reader will imagine the 

 definition can hardly be correct, with regard to a bone 

 which may be broader than it is long, I will here define 



