prince's faithfulness. 337 



the yellow on the back and the black spots on the 

 body are often enough seen in the specimens about 

 the streets.* 



" Some four years and a half ago, a friend sent 

 me a grown up pup, then about seven months old, 

 a Creole product of a stock originally procured from 

 the Indian main. As this dog, which we still possess, 

 exhibits marked traits of character which are said to 

 prevail always in the breed, I shall set down some 

 few of its peculiarities. 



" The first act of Prince when brought to us, v^^as to 

 attach himself to a little niece of mine, twelve years 

 old, — to whom, rather than to my sister or myself, 

 he was a present, and he became so exclusively hers, 

 as to disregard, and even receive with displeasure, 

 the caresses of everybody beside. He did not long 

 enjoy the beneficent eye of this mistress ; — she was 

 seized with a mortal fever which carried her off in a 

 few days after his arrival in our house. Prince's 

 place was, however, always by her pillow, — and he 

 would rise from the soundest sleep at midnight to 

 kiss her fevered cheek and be fondled by her, if he 

 heard her voice. When she was in her cofiin. Prince's 

 place was under the head of it, where he sat silent 

 and sullen, and seemed as much a mourner as any 

 of the family. 

 " Prince's affection continues to maintain this marked 



* " The passage in Edwards, quoted from Acosto {see note on 

 p. 331.), represents the Alco as fox -nosed. Very many of the Mexi- 

 can Mopsies are so fashioned ; though Prince has not that feature 

 sharp. A pointed, fox-nosed Mopsy is, however, more common than 

 one with a short nose." 



