274 THE SPANIEL. 



re-appearance ; and still, the day after, he was at his 

 post. Some persons made him a bed of straw, and 

 some brought him food, but to these testimonials of 

 kindness and admiration he remained insensible, 

 rejecting both. He would run backwards and for- 

 wards, in great distress, upon the ice, but always 

 came back to the same sleeping place. He bit a 

 soldier who would have forced him away, who, fearing 

 that he was mad, fired at and wounded him. People 

 came in crowds to gaze at the poor spaniel ; and, at 

 last, a woman prevailed upon it to have its wound 

 dressed. She carried it home with her, and we 

 believe succeeded, after a lapse of time, in making it 

 again comfortable and happy. Of the thousand pet 

 spaniels of idle ladies, we sometimes hear remark- 

 able accounts of their cunning in eluding orders, given 

 before them, to which they were averse, relative to 

 their personal treatment. 



Springers and cockers are made use of in grey- 

 hound coursing; but the cocker, who hunts closer, 

 and is not so full of bustle as the springer, is of the 

 more utility to the sportsman. Colonel Hawker 

 remarks, with regard to spaniels, that they are, nine 

 times out of ten, so badly broken in, as in general to 

 be only fit to drive a large w r ood; but, if taught to 

 keep always within half a gun-shot, they are the best 

 dogs in existence for working among hassocks and 

 briars. They should be trained very young, or they 

 require an unmerciful degree of flogging ; and it is 

 sometimes advisable, at first, to hunt them with a 



