sheep -stealing ; and haviag selected some sheep from the floct 

 of a former master, he and his dog commenced driving them 

 away ; but before he had got them off the farm, he, whether 

 from the voice of conscience or the terror of possible conse- 

 quences, countermanded the execution of the project, and drove 

 the sheep back ag-ain. He called his dog away, and, mounting 

 his pony, rode off at a gaUop. But halting at the distance ol 

 three miles, and looking round, he there saw the stolen sheep 

 at his heels, with his dog in their rear, driving them before 

 him at a furious rate. The young man, as soon as he reco- 

 vered from his amazement, severely whipped the dog for his 

 disobedience, and then agaia rode off. The dog, however, was 

 evidently quite in the dark as to what he had been whipped 

 for, for after trotting on before the pony some distance, he 

 once more sUpped behind, and speedily fetched up the unlucky 

 sheep, sweating and panting from the rate at which they had 

 been made to travel. By this time day was beginning to dawn, 

 and the owner of the dog, feeling that it would be impossible 

 for him to make a defence against such overwhelming evidence, 

 and seeing that he could not wash his hands clean of the stolen 

 property, disposed of the sheep, for which he was shortly after- 

 wards condemned to death. 



Despite the opinion of certain writers, that the greyhound 

 is a siUy dog — that " his flat forehead and elongated snout are 

 emblems of stupidity " — there are not wanting instances to 

 prove that he at times shows himself as shrewd as any of his 

 canine brethren. The well-known Mr. Touatt tells a story 

 corroborative of this. Two greyhounds were concerned, and 

 their chief weakness was, that whenever and wherever they 

 saw or scented meat, they felt bound at any risk to possess 

 themselves of it and devour it. This was a serious matter, 

 not so much on account of the value of the plunder, as that its 

 inordinate consumption made the dogs fat and lazy, and alto- 

 gether unfit for coursing. Adjoining the kennel there was a 

 room in which was suspended an iron caldron, in which the 

 dog's-meat was cooked. It would have been supposed that the 

 meat once in the pot, and the pot surrounded by a blaze, the 

 cook might safely take his departure to attend to his other 

 duties. Such a course, however, could not be followed, inas- 

 much as the theft of the boiHng meat was certain to be the 

 result. One dog would rear against the side of the pot, pat 

 open the lid with his paw, and, taking any projecting scrap of 

 the joint within his teeth, whip the whole out and on to the 



