100 BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. 



possessing strength enough for labour. There are 

 certainly some dogs possessing none of these attri- 

 butes and perfections : we will dispose of such as 

 quickly here as they ought to bedisposedof, when and 

 where found. Such worthless animals ought never to 

 be born, and if born, should be put out of the way 

 while puppies. Some ultra advocate for equality, and 

 the rights of all classes, may say the cottager has as 

 great a right to keep his cur, as the squire his hound : 

 no man can deny the truth of such aphorism in its 

 broad acceptation ; and, indeed, if the cur guards or 

 keeps watch for his master, cur though he be, he is 

 useful, and he even earns his keep. The lawbeing now 

 against dogs being used in draught, has in the minds 

 of some thrown merit on the heads of legislators, on 

 the score of humanity to the brute creation : of such 

 commendation in this case they do not deserve a par- 

 ticle, nor much, indeed, in anyother,asto laws to effec- 

 tually protect dumb animals. The dog-cart nuisance, 

 as it was called, was put a stop to, not from any ideas 

 of humanity to the dumb animals, but to the talking 

 ones: it was thought that the work conduced to hydro- 



