:E TURNSPIT. 



posed to the burning sun and the heated atmosphere, without the least assistance from 

 human aid. 



The time during which this disease may remain latent in the system is extremely 

 variable. Sometimes it becomes manifest in a few days, while in other cases the virus 

 has produced no tangible effects until the expiration of several months. In one case, 

 however, the disease made its appearance after the seventh month. Mr. Youatt sug- 

 gests that if every Dog could be kept in separate quarantine for the space of eight 

 months, "the disease might be annihilated in this country, and could only appear in 

 consequence of the importation of some infected animal." This opinion, however, 

 will hardly hold its ground, for although all Dogs that are actually infected might be 

 removed by this course of probation, there is no possibility of warranting that the dis- 

 ease might not again originate in some previously healthy individual, as it must have 

 done in the first instance. . 



TURNSPIT. -Cro/s familiaris. 



JUST as the invention of the spinning-jenny abolished the use of distaff and wheel, 

 which were formerly the occupants of every well-ordained English cottage, so the in- 

 vention of automaton roasting-jacks has destroyed the occupation of the TURNSPIT 

 DOG, and by degrees has almost annihilated its very existence. Here and there a 

 solitary Turnspit may be seen, just as a spinning-wheel or a distaff may be seen in a 

 few isolated cottages ; but both the Dog and the implement are exceptions to the 

 general rule, and are only worthy of notice as being curious relics of a bygone time. 



In former days, and even within the remembrance of the present generation, the 

 task of roasting a joint of meat or a fowl was a comparatively serious one, and required 

 the constant attendance of the cook, in order to prevent the meat from being spoiled by 

 the unequal action of the fire. The smoke-jack, as it was rather improperly termed 

 inasmuch as it was turned, not by the smoke, but by the heated air that rushed up the 

 chimney was a great improvement, because the spit revolved at a rate that corre- 

 sponded with the heat of the fire. 



So complicated an apparatus, however, could not be applied to all chimneys, or in 



