158 THE FRENCH POODLE. 



French banner in his teeth, and strenuously endeavoured to 

 disengage it ; but ineffectually. He succeeded, however, in 

 tearing away the silk, and with this glorious trophy returned 

 to the camp limping and bleeding, 



One day a chasseur, mistaking the dog, hit him a chance 

 blow with the flat side of his sabre. Moustache, piqued to the 

 heart, deserted from the regiment, attached himself to some 

 dragoons, and followed them into Spain. On the eleventh of 

 March, 1811, he was killed by a cannon ball, at the taking of 

 Badajoz. He was buried on the scene of his last glories, collar, 

 medal, and all. A plain stone with the simple inscription, " Ci 

 git le brave Moustache" was placed over his grave 5 but the 

 Spaniards afterwards broke the stone, and the bones of the poor 

 animal were burnt by order of the Inquisition. 



THE SHOCK AND COMFORTER. 



The shock, though a common favourite with the fair sex, 

 and generally kept as white as snow, has not much pre- 

 tension to beauty, and more resembles a white muff than a 

 dog. Its long woolly hair continually dangling over the eyes, 

 to its seeming annoyance, gives it a most pitiable appearance. 



