^ THE bog; and how to break him. 



sheep and lambs kept in that district. She was 

 eventually caught, and even domesticated so far as 

 to be taken out coursing. On these occasions she 

 ran cunning, and seldom missed her hare. So 

 late as the winters of 1849 and 1850 a dog, ap- 

 parently wild, was seen in the fells of Eskdale, in 

 Cumberland, which, it was supposed, committed 

 great ravages amongst the sheep in that wild dis- 

 trict. No doubt the sheep would suffer from this 

 animal ; but it was ascertained that a foxhound 

 — a celebrated dog for trail- hunting, called 

 " Tuner,'^ the property of Mr. R. Copeland, of 

 Hawthwaite Bank — was in the habit of doing a 

 little business on his own account amongst the 

 sheep about this time, when, naturally enough, 

 all the mischief done in the locality would be attri- 

 buted to the unknown wild dog. As an instance of 

 the sagacity, of the almost reasoning powers of the 

 dog, I may relate that this Tuner, when out on 

 an errand of depredation, would acknowledge no 

 one — not even his master. At ordinary times he 

 was familiar with me, and was fond, as most dogs 

 of his breed are, of being caressed, even by 

 strangers. When on business of his own his man- 

 ner was peculiar ; his path was generally out of the 

 little town of Broughton-in-Furness down to the 

 side of the river Duddon. He would traverse 

 the bank for some short distance, then swim the 

 river, disappear among the coppice woods of 



