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spaniel, much given to pointing and setting at stray bones 

 and swill-pails — scarcely a week passed that he was not 

 caught in the store-keeper's garden and soundly scratched 

 for his poachings. Hurry-scurry through the squash-vines 

 and green corn ; dog " a leetle ahead," but pussy close on 

 his bushy tail ; now the fugitive reaches the board fence 

 and scpiats for a leap ; in that moment a streak of furry 

 lightning mounts his back and draws a yelp ; away now 

 to another hopeful corner, and another, and another ; a 

 lucky bound at last, and then a straight race for life ; of 

 course the longest legs win it. 



4. This feline fencer was tremendous on eyes ; she 

 lunged right at them and held on like a tiger. I have seen 

 a short-legged, stout-bodied, obstinate cur whirl her three 

 times around his head, with her claws fastened in the skin 

 of his stolid physiognomy. She was pitched a couple of 

 yards at last, and with great violence ; but the moment 

 she struck earth she was up like Antaeus, and at him again. 

 Of all the dogs in the neighboring country, only big Pomp 

 Wheeler was ever known to make Pussy Lewis turn her 

 tail. Both these heroic combatants are now with Hector 

 and Julius Caesar. Peace to their manes, such as they had ! 



J. W. Be Forest. 



CANINE JUSTICE. 



1. A case which occurred at a fashionable watering- 

 place on the east coast of Ireland some years ago exhibits 

 the remarkable sagacity displayed by a dog in devising and 

 administering justice. The jetty which stretched along 

 the small harbor was at that time used as a promenade by 

 the elite among the sojourners on the coast, where, after 

 the heat of the long summer days, they regaled themselves 

 with the fresh evening breezes wafted in from the sea. 



