CH.I1I.] ODD PECULIARITIES OF SPANIEL. 191 
Two other of his peculiarities may perhaps be 
also worth recording. One of these was his ex- 
treme sensitiveness in point of “ear” for music. 
If he were lying fast asleep in the drawing-room, 
and two or three discords were (purposely) struck 
on the piano, he would instantly jump up, and 
express his horror of them by a dismal whine. 
The other was his dislike to have anything float- 
ing about in his “tea.” I have seen him start 
back and growl at a tea-twig (in nursery parlance 
“stranger’) which happened to come to the sur- 
face whilst he was drinking it. 
