COOKEE-SPANIBL. 



This little spaniel, whose weight averages twelve or fif- 

 teen pounds, is a favourite sporting dog. There are several 

 sorts : the " Welsh," the " English," the " Devonshire," and 

 many others. Captain "Williamson (author of " Oriental 

 Field Sports ") once experienced an instance of the indomi- 

 table courage of a tiny cocker of his, called " Paris." The 

 captain was shooting near some underwood, rather thinly 

 scattered among reedy grass, growing on the edge of a large 

 water-course, which took its rise at the foot of the large hill at 

 Mucknee Gunge (India), whea suddenly the spaniel in ques- 

 tion, one of a brace that was present, ran round a large bush 

 greatly agitated, and apparently on some game which the 

 sportsman expected to put up. The captain followed as fast 

 as he could, but Paris was too quick for him, and before he 

 could well get round to the bush, which was about ten yards 

 from the brink of the ravine, had come to a stand, his ears 

 pricked, his tail wagging like lightning, and his whole frame in 

 a seeming state of ecstacy. " I expected that he had got a hare 

 under the bank, and as the situation was in favour of a shot, I 

 ran towards him with more speed than I should have done had 

 I known that instead of a hare I should find, as I did, a tiger 

 sitting on its rump, and staring Paris in the face. They were 

 not above two yards asunder. 



" As soon as the dog found me at his side, he barked, and. 

 giving a spring down, dashed at the tiger. What happened 

 for some moments I really cannot say ; the surprise and 

 danger which suddenly affected me banished at once that 

 presence of mind which many boast to possess in all emergen- 

 cies. However, as soon as my fright had subsided, I began, 

 like a person waking from a dream, to look about, and saw the 

 tiger cantering away at about a hundred and fifty yards' dis- 

 tance with his tail erect, and followed by Paris, who kept 

 barking." The tiger, arriving at a thick cover, disappeared, 

 and the plucky little cocker returned to his dismayed master. 



THE LABKiDOa SPANIEL. 



This dog presents an appearance intermediate between the 

 Newfoundland and the land spaniel. As a swimmer and 

 diver he is almost unmatched. The Ls/brador spaniel may be 

 considered in the light of a " public character." A number of 

 Savmders's News-Letter vouches for the fact : — 



"Peeleb, the Dog on the Police. — During a recent in- 



