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addressed to them, iior carried on in an altered tour -as, indeed, is tin- case will -t 



dogs-" 



A gentleman, calling on Dr. Gall, in Paris, found him in the midst, of l>n ,nd dogs, which 



were his pets. "Do you think," said he, turning hiu eyes to two bcantifid dogs at his feet, whi.-li 

 were endeavouring to attract his attention, "do you think that these little pet* potuKWH pride and 

 vanity like man '{" "Yes," said the other, "I have remarked their vanity frequently." " We will 

 call both feelings into action," said he. He then caressed the whelp, and took it into hi, 

 " Mark that mother's offended pride," said he, as he walked quietly across tin' chamber to her mal-. 

 " Do you think she will come if I call her?" " Oh, yes," answered his friend. " Not at all," wan 

 the rejoinder. He made the attempt, but she heeded not the hand she had so earnestly end- :i\oun d 

 to lick but an instant before. "She will not speak to me to-day," said Dr. (Jail. 



The smallest of the land spaniels is the Cocker, which is chiefly used in Mushing wi.odco.-l 

 pheasants in thickets and copses, into which the setter and the springer can scarcely enter. Tin- 

 Blenheim is a spaniel reared 

 by one of the Dukes of Marl- 

 borough. From its beauty and 

 gaiety, it is more frequently 

 found in the drawing-room 

 than the field ; but it occa- 

 sionally breaks out, and shows 

 what it is prepared to do. 



A beautiful female, of the 

 cocker breed, displayed towards 



BLENHEIMS AND COCKKUS. 



its mistress the strongest af- 

 fection. One morning, as she 

 was lacing her boots, one of 

 the laces broke. She turned 

 to the dog, and playfully said, 

 "Oh, dear! I wish you would 

 find me another boot-lace ;" 

 and having mended the broken 

 one, thought nomoreofit. On the following morning, when she was again lacing her boots, the spaniel 

 ran up to her with a new silken boot-lace in its mouth, to her great amazement, and that of the family. 

 Where it obtained it no one knew; but, doubtless, it had purloined it from some work 1.\, or 

 similar repository. 



Mr. Edwards had a dog which was in the habit of seeking and bringing back gloves, if, in the 

 course of conversation to which the dog appeared to pay no attention the word ijnnin happened to 

 lie used, without any allusion to the dog's peculiarity ; and when it had found them and brought them 

 into the room, the animal appeared as careless in listening as before. A dog, the property of the aunt 

 of M. Audoin, was as much excited by the word giiMettes (gingerbread cakes); at the utterance ot 

 which it ran to the cupboard where these canine delicacies were kept 



Wilberforce relates that he and some friends were talking of the levity and gaiety of heart of tin- 

 French, even under the severest misfortunes, when this recalled an anecdote relate, 1 to him by I'itt. 

 Shortly after the tragical death of Marie Antoinette, M. Perigord an emigrant of some i onsequence, 

 who had made his acquaintance at Versailles took refuge in England, and, on arriving in London, 

 went to pay his lespects in Downing Street. The conversation naturally turned on the bloody scenes 

 of the French Revolution, on their fatal consequences to social order, and, in particular, on the barbarity 

 with which the unfortunate queen had been treated. The Frenchman's feelings \\ ere quite overcome, 

 and he exclaimed, amidst violent sobbing "Ah, Monsieur Pitt, In pONVM ram*/ /" JMHMT6 / 

 These words had scarcely been uttered, when he jumped up, as if a new idea had suddenh 

 him, and, looking towards a little dog, which came with him, he exclaimed : " (V/W.i///, -I/... 

 Pitt, if fai'f. vous faire voir mon petit cliii'ii f/nm<,-i- f" Then, pulling a small kit out of his pocket, he 

 began dancing about the room to the sound of his little instrument, and calling to the dog. " I'<nt<-hif 



