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Hounds and the Bugle. — In Mrs. Custer's entertaining volume, 

 ' Boots and Saddles,' she mentions the effect of the cavalry bugle- 

 call as follows : — " The pack of hounds were an endless source of 

 delight to the General. We had about forty ; the stag-hounds 

 [i. e. deer-hounds] , that run by sight, and are, on the whole, the 

 fleetest and most enduring dogs in the world, and the fox-hounds, 

 that follow the trail with their noses close to the ground. The 

 first rarely bark, but the latter are very noisy. The General and 

 I used to listen with amusement to them striking the key-note of the 

 bugler when he sounded the calls summoning the men to guard, 

 mount, stables, or retreat. It rather destroyed the military effect 

 to see beside his soldierly figure a hound sitting down absorbed 

 in imitation. With lifted head and rolling eyes there issued from 

 the broad mouth notes so doleful they would have answered for a 

 misericordia" During a period of ill health, I boarded for 

 several months at a hotel in Auburn, California, and a part of 

 nearly every day was passed in the shade of a vine-clad summer- 

 house, on the neighbouring grounds of an acquaintance, Dr. Todd. 

 A friend of mine, a young man in poor health, boarded with the 

 Doctor, and we were together every day. Dr. Todd had an old 

 collie that served the purpose of a watch-dog. Our relations with 

 the animal were such that it knew us to be friendly ; during the 

 day the dog was always with us. Without the slightest look, 

 word, or sign of command, rebuke or menace by either of us, the 

 moment I commenced to imitate a French-horn he would imme- 

 diately leave and skulk away to his kennel, evidently very much 

 annoyed, and that, too, without regard to the tune. When a 

 veritable horn was played upon by my companion, the poor dog 

 trembled in every limb, went to his kennel, and remained there 

 in a state of nervous agitation, made neither a bark, howl or moan, 

 but wore a deplorably pitiable expression, as if his nerves were 

 absolutely unstrung. No doubt the sounds affected him as the 

 filing of a saw or Chinese instrumental music affect me. 



