48 CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY.. 



Fancfon, dansez, dansez!" the little animal instantly obeyed, and they cut such capers together, that 

 the minister's gravity was quite overcome, and he burst into a loud laugh, hardly knowing whether he 

 was most amused or astonished. 



The late Mr. Justice Williams, whilst on a visit to Lord Brougham, felt a pain in his chest, but 

 did not mention it to his host.. On his way through London, he consulted his physicians; who con- 

 sidered it of no grave importance. On reaching his seat in Suffolk, he was seemingly quite well, and 

 went out daily to shoot. After a week or ten days, he was somewhat indisposed ; he went out, how- 

 ever, riding before breakfast, but did not dine at table, some visitors being there. Lady Williams left 

 him pretty well in the drawing-room, and returned after dianer, but before the company retired from 

 table. She found him apparently well, and playing with her lap-dog. She went again to the dining- 

 room, and returned for the dog in three, or at most four, minutes. No sooner did she open the door, 

 than the animal set up a loud bark, and rushed past her violently, barking and howling all the way. 

 She asked her husband what ailed the dog, but received no answer. She repeated the question ; and 

 seeing him, as she thought, asleep, called his servant to see if his head was not too low. The 

 man said, "No, he is sleeping comfortably." She approached him, and again asked him to speak. 

 She observed one eye nearly open, the other half closed, but his colour as visual. This servant, as well as 

 another, thought that he still slept, but her ladyship felt sure he was gone and so it proved. " The 

 Law Review," after relating all the circumstances of the case, says : " We have entered into this 

 detail on account of the very remarkable circumstance of the dog's instinct. It is quite clear that 

 the poor animal was aware of the fatal change some time before any observer of our own species 

 could discover that the spirit of its master had passed from this world. Many stories have been told 

 of such instinctive sense, but it has never before, we believe, been established on such irrefragable 

 evidence as the facts above detailed constitute." 



THE WATER SPANIEL.* 



THIS dog is generally liver-coloured and white, with the hair of the body crisped, or disposed in little 

 knots. It is of a moderate size, strong, active, and intelligent, and is of great service to the water- 

 fowl shooter, either along the sea-coast, or amidst fens and marshes. 



THE WATKR SPANIEL. 



M. de Puymarin had a fine and highly- trained water spaniel. At the time when Paris was occupied 

 by the Allied Armies, General Stewart lodged with him at Toulouse, when he remarked that the dog 

 would take nothing that was offered to it with the left hand, and tried several times to deceive it by 



* Cam's aquatieus. 



