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the terrier outside. The woman in the shop said : ' I liave 

 a savage cat in the back parlour, so don't let the dogs 

 come in.' She had no sooner said it than I noticed my 

 Yorkie go outside and go close to the terrier, and in a 

 second they both rashed into the shop to hunt out the cat, 

 which of course I prevented at once. It makes me 

 wretched if a dog follows me when out walking, and makes 

 beseeching eyes at me to take him home, which is an 

 impossibility, though my heart would wish to do so. It is 

 a most touching sight to see and watch a p)oor lost dog. 

 At first, when he loses scent, his face is full of startled 

 surprise ; then he circles round and round ; his face 

 grows long and his eye wistful and almost human in its 

 anxiety. He starts off first in one direction and then 

 in another, staring in the faces of all passers-by, as if asking 

 whether they have seen his master. Suddenly he fancies 

 he sees him, starts off" like lightning, and then returns 

 more anxious than ever. He takes no rest, but doubles 

 and pursues and turns back till all hope is dead, and will 

 often follow anyone who has' what he considers a dog- 

 friend face, hoping to be sheltered somewhere, or that some 

 pitiful person may try and find his home.' 



I have heard it said that the love of dogs is a relic of 

 barbarism, as seen in the untutored Indian who expects 

 to meet his dog in heaven. But I must agree with the feel- 

 ings of Whyte Melville in his hunting song of ' The Place 



1 It is well for those to know who have the misfortune to lose a dog 

 that besides the well-known Home for Lost and Starving Dogs at 

 Battersea, founded and endowed by Mrs. TeaUy in 1860, there is 

 another home, also in Battersea, called the Brown Institution, which is 

 a kind of infirmary where the poorer classes can receive advice and 

 treatment gratis for their dogs. Dogs taken to the Dogs' Home are 

 given up to their owners, when claimed, on the payment of the fee of one 

 shilling for the first day and sixpence for each day afterwards. All valu- 

 able and good dogs, if not claimed within three days, are sold, and the 

 mongrels are destroyed in the Lethal Chamber without pain. Mrs. Anne 

 Mayhew, of College Park, Harrow Road, also takes in starving dogs and 

 treats them most kindly. If I were rich I would like to found homes 

 and hospitals in every principal town in the United Kingdom, and then, 

 with the aid of the many branches of the Society for the Prevention of 

 Cruelty to Animals, I don't think hydrophobia would be heard of. 



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