THE UOB. 



could educate four, and it was always difficult to abstract the 

 doomed ones from tlie watchful little mother. It so chanced 

 that once, after the two pups had been drowned by the stable- 

 man, poor Chloe discovered their little wet bodies in the stable- 

 yard, and brought them to the live ones that remained in the 

 basket. She licked them, cherished them, howled over them, 

 but they still remained damp and cold. Gentle at all other 

 times, she would not now permit even her mistress to remove 

 them, and no stratagem could draw her from the basket. At 

 last we suppose Chloe felt it was not good for the dead and the 

 living to be together, so she took one of the poor things in her 

 mouth, walked with it across the lawn to the spot where a 

 lovely red-thorn tree made a shady place, dug a hole, laid the 

 puppy in it, came back for the other, placed it with its little 

 relative, scraped the earth over them, and returned sadly and 

 slowly to her duties." 



The Blenheim spaniel is, when thorough bred, smaller even 

 than the King Charles. Like the latter, to be of value it should 

 possess a very short muzzle, very long sUky ears falling close to 

 the head, and touching the ground as the dog walks. The legs 

 should be covered with long glossy hair to the toes, and the tail 

 should be well " feathered," as the fanciers say. The eyes of 

 both these dogs are always extremely moist. The hair cover- 

 ing the whole body should be slightly " wavy," but should not 

 curl. 



The Maltese is another dog of the " toy " school. It is re- 

 markable for the extreme fineness, gloss, and length of its hair. 

 Maltese dogs barely exceeding three pounds in weight have 

 been known to measure fifteen inches in length of hair across 

 the shoulders. As its name imphes, it originally came from 

 Malta. It is among the rarest of our canine pets. 



THE TERRIBE. 



No dogs are so well known in England as these, and it may 

 be safely said that there is scarcely a mongrel, be he ever so 

 thorough a castaway and vagabond, but has terrier blood in 

 his lean body. The more he has of it the better for him, espe- 

 cially if he have a living to pick up, and a lodging to procure, 

 and no master to help him. The dog with anything of the 

 terrier about him is sure to be a shrewd dog — a more or less 

 knowing reader of the human countenance, a quality by no 

 means to be despised in a houseless dog ; it often — especially 

 when he finds himself late on a bitter winter night, with no 



