DOG-CARTS. Ill 



they would burst their bonds, and man would in his turn be the victim 

 and the slave. 



There is an important faculty, termed attention. It is that which 

 distinguishes the promising pupil from him of whom no good hope could 

 be formed, and the scientific man from the superficial and ignorant one. 

 The power of keeping the mind steadily bent upon one purpose is the great 

 secret of individual and moral improvement. We see the habit of atten- 

 tion carried in the dog to a very considerable extent. The terrier eagerly 

 watching for vermin the sporting dog standing stanch to his point, 

 however he may be annoyed by the blunders of his companion or the un- 

 skilfulness of his master the foxhound, insensible to a thousand scents, 

 and deaf to every other sound, while he anxiously and perseveringly 

 searches out the track of his prey these are striking illustrations of the 

 power of attention. 



Then, the impression having been received, and the mind having been 

 employed in its examination, it is treasured up in the storehouse of the 

 mind for future use. 



This is the faculty of memory, and a most important one it is. Of the 

 memory of the dog, and the recollection of kindness received, there are 

 a thousand stories, from the return of Ulysses to the present day, and we 

 have seen enough of that faithful animal to believe most of them. An 

 officer was abroad with his regiment, during the American war. He had 

 a fine Newfoundland dog, his constant companion, whom he left with 

 his family. After the lapse of several years he returned. His dog met 

 him at the door ; leaped upon his neck, licked his face, and died. 



Of the accuracy and retentiveness of memory in the dog, as respects 

 the instruction he has received from his master, we have abundant proof 

 in the pointer and the hound, and it may perhaps be with some of them, 

 as with men, that the lesson must sometimes be repeated, and even im- 

 pressed on the memory in a way not altogether pleasant. 



DOG-CARTS. 



These were, and still are in the country, connected with many an act of 

 atrocious cruelty. We do not object to the dog as a beast of draught. He 

 is so in the northern regions, and he is as happy as any other animal in 

 those cold and inhospitable countries. He is so in Holland, and he is as 

 comfortable there as any other beast that wears the collar. He is not so in 

 Newfoundland : there he is shamefully treated. It is to the abuse of the 

 thing, the poor, and half-starved condition of the animal ; the scandalous 

 weight that he is made to draw, and the infamous usage to which he is ex- 

 posed, that we object. We would put him precisely on the same footing with 

 the horse, and then we should be able, perhaps, to afford him, not all the 

 protection we could wish, but nearly as much as we have obtained for the 

 horse. We would have every cart licensed, not for the sake of adding to 

 the revenue, but of getting at the owner ; and therefore the taxing need 

 not be any great sum. We would have the cart licensed for the carrying 

 of goods only ; or a separate licence taken out if it carried or drew a 

 human being. 



It is here that the cruelty principally exists. Before the dog-carts were 

 put down in the metropolis, we then saw a man and a woman in one of 

 these carts, drawn by a single dog, and going at full trot. Every passenger 



