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them with me in their manors. To these I paid no regard, 

 and as they never brought any action on that account, it 

 may be supposed they could find no just cause to ground 

 one. What then is to be done? Some method is to be con- 

 trived to deprive me of [my attendants; the spaniel therefore 

 was the first object destined for destruction. He was small, 

 and of a beautiful black, and had been used to the parlour; 

 and being absent about an hour, came reeling home in the 

 agonies of death ; and in about a quarter of an hour after, 

 died in the seemingly most excruciating tortures. Suspecting 

 some villany, I ordered him to be opened, but found every 

 thing perfect and entire; I then directed him to be skinned, 

 and coming to the loins, found the traces of a table-fork, 

 which was stuck into the kidneys, and which was the occa- 

 sion of his speedy and dreadful death. A few days after 

 this, my best greyhound was stuck in the loins, in the like 

 barbarous manner, which brought on the same kind of 

 speedy and agonizing death ; and this was the catastrophe of 

 these two noted dogs, which had been much talked of, and 

 were famous amongst sportsmen, as being most perfect in 

 their kind. Some time after this, their game-keeper, in 

 company with his nephew, buried two dogs alive; they were 

 the property of Mr. Wade, a substantial grazier, who had 

 grounds contiguous to a place of cover, called Langton 

 Caudle, where was often game; and where the unfortunate 

 two dogs, straying from their master, had been used to hunt. 

 The game-keeper and his nephew being shooting in this 

 place, the dogs, upon the report of the gun, made towards 

 them. Their shooting them or hanging them would have 

 been merciful, but they buried them alive; and what words 

 can express the abhorrence of such barbarity to such inno- 

 cent creatures following the dictates of nature? To prevent 

 a possibility of their scratching a way out, they covered 

 them down with black thorns; over these they laid a suffi- 

 cient quantity of earth and one large stone, which they 



