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across the road and up the road, and finally tip the 

 hill over some very deep ground. ^^It was just the 

 one for him, as he was the cleverest dog in England.^^ 

 Omniscience was his forte, and his owner, a veteri- 

 nary surgeon at Selby, knew how to foster it. In 

 fact, he trained him by taking a second-class ticket, 

 and making him follow the train. A more serious- 

 looking dog was never whelped, and with head 

 enough for a litter. He would play at leap-frog 

 with his owner, walk in a field Avith hares on every 

 side and not look at one, raid stop at a word if he 

 was running a course. He would lie on a dinner- 

 table, and ask for nothing, and he would have wor- 

 ried a man out of hand if he got the office. In fact, 

 '' Barrator at Biggar'^ was quite a character, and be- 

 tween the courses, if he was not distressed, he might 

 be generally seen with a ring round him going 

 through his various performances. He did a very 

 clever thing at Lytham, so clever, in fact, that Mr. 

 Nightingale always goes to look at the place for his 

 sake. He pressed his hare to a gate, jumped over 

 her, and went round as if on a pivot, turned her 

 back, and killed her in his second jump. It was 

 done so instantaneously that the dog seemed to throw 

 a back somersault in the air, and he had her before 

 the other dog reached the gate. 



The great Eden and Dusty Miller match for 250 

 sovs. aside, the best of three, quite agitated the Glas- 

 gow Stock Exchange on the day it was run off near 

 Eeattock. It arose out of Gilbertfield defeating 



