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different. The object chiefly sought in the latter is to 

 make the dog deliver expeditiously (IQ1\ in the former, 

 to make him carry perseveringly for miles and miles. 

 To inculcate carrying, always make him suppose that 

 you greatly regard what is confided to his charge. 

 Many a good carrier is spoiled by children picking 

 up any stick and giving it to him. He has the sense 

 to know that it is valueless, and when he is tired of the 

 fun, he drops it unrebvked, and, after a time, is supplied 

 with another. If you practise a pup in carrying a stick, 

 show more discretion than to let it be so long that it 

 must jar against his teeth by trailing on the ground, or 

 hitting the walls. 



154. Being on the subject of tricks, as several ladies have done 

 me the unexpected but highly appreciated honour of reading what 

 I have said respecting their four-footed attendants, I think it as 

 well to observe, should they be tempted to teach a favourite any 

 accomplishments, that these should be practised occasionally, or 

 they may be forgotten, (all the sooner, like more serious studies, the 

 more easily they were acquired ;) and that the exhibition of them 

 might be made much more effective and striking by a little exer- 

 cise, on the ladies' part, of the address and tact with which Dame 

 Nature has so liberally endowed them. 



155. Quite a sensation was created many years ago, at Tonbridge 



Wells, by the Hon. C. D s, who possessed a dog which had been 



taught by a former master, for very unlawful purposes, to fetch, 

 when ordered, any article to which his owner had slily directed the 

 animal's attention. 



156. The gentleman was walking up and down the crowded 

 Pantiles, listening to the public band, and playing the agreeable to 

 a titled lady, whom he subsequently married ; when, bowing to 

 some passing acquaintance, he casually observed, " How badly my 

 hat has been brushed ! " at the same time giving the private signal 

 to the dog, who instantly ran off to one of the adjacent toy-shops, 

 and brought away the hat-brush which his master had pointed out 

 to him about a quarter of an hour before. 



157. As Mr. D s kept his own counsel, the lady and many of 



their friends, as well as the pursuing shopman, fancied the dog had 

 sufficient intelligence to understand what had been said, and had, 

 from his own sagacity, volunteered fetching what he conceived was 

 required. 



158. The barrack-rooms at Gibraltar used not to be furnished 

 with bells. An officer of the Artillery, quartered on the Rock 



