THE dog; and how to break him. 5 



Duddon bank, and thence emerge on to tlie feU. 

 During his journey he would answer no call nor 

 whistle ; he would go out of the way a score or two 

 of yards to avoid coming in contact with a human 

 being, and by his whole manner he appeared 

 anxious to avoid observation, and he invariably 

 commenced his journey towards the close of 

 day. In an hour or two he would return and 

 join his master at one or other of the places to 

 which he was in the habit of resorting. The 

 natural disposition of this dog one day got the 

 better of his cunning : he was engaged in a trail- 

 hunt j the trail had been drawn near some sheep 

 on a wild spot called Dunnerdale Fell; and Tuner, 

 on passing, supposing himself unobserved, flew 

 upon and worried several individuals of the flock. 

 He was destroyed in consequence. 



On a shooting excursion, once, in the Isle of 

 Man, I observed a dog, which had followed me 

 some distance from a public-house, go up the side 

 of a mountain called Greeba, and wony one of the 

 small sheep peculiar to that island. He had 

 passed within a yard or two of the animal, in my 

 company, without attempting to molest it, and 

 commenced his attack when he supposed himself 

 unobserved. The sheep was his master^s property, 

 and one which he was in the habit of tending. 

 But this is digressing from our subject. 



The Newfoundland dog might be supposed. 



