perfonning poodle liideous by shaving off its coat, leaving 

 nothing but a few rags about its throat and toes. 



There are few doggy tricks the poodle cannot be taught to 

 P"rform, in the water as weU as on land. He is a cunning 

 rascal. Jessie, in his " Gleanings," mentions a poodle belong- 

 ing to a friend of his, for whom correction was found necessary ; 

 he being sometimes rather unruly, the gentleman bought a 

 whip, with which he corrected him once or twice when out 

 walking ; on his return he left the whip on the hall table, and 

 in the morning it was missing ; having been found concealed 

 in an out-building, and, as before, used when occasion re- 

 quired, in correcting the dog, it was once more missed ; but on 

 the dop, who was suspected of having stolen it, being watched, 

 he was seen to take it from the haU table, in order to hide it 

 as before. 



" There was a story when we were in Heidelberg," says the 

 " Dublin University Magazine," " going about of a certain stu- 

 dent who had a remarkably fine white poodle, that used daily 

 to accompany his master to the lecture-room of a professor, 

 who was not very remarkable for the distinctness of his vision ; 

 he would regularly take his seat upon the bench beside his 

 master, and peer into his book, as if he understood every word 

 of it. One wet morning, the lecture-room, never, at any time, 

 remarkable for its folnesg, was deserted, save by the student 

 who owned the poodle. The dog, however, had somehow hap- 

 pened to remain at home. ' G-entlemen,' said the short-sighted 

 professor, as he commenced his lecture, ' I am sorry to notice, 

 that the very attentive student in the white coat, whose industry 

 I have not failed to observe, is, contrary to his usual custom, 

 absent to-day .' ' " 



