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THE RAT. 
as look at it, never having been trained to them ; con- 
sequently, though some of them would kill any number of 
rats in a pit or parlour, if properly secured from escape, yet 
at the same time they would kill scarcely a rat a month ot 
their own catching. 
Perhaps the most extraordinary animals for rat-killing 
that the world ever saw, were two celebrated dogs, named 
Tiny and Jem, of whom I have already spoken at some length. 
A small account of these most wonderful creatures may not 
be wholly uninteresting ; and therefore I will wind up the 
subject on dogs with " Tiny and the Baby." 
Tiny was a very slender, pretty black-tan bull-terrier, 
about the size of an ordinary cat, and weighed only five 
pounds and a half in trained condition. He was a most 
excitable little creature, and could not stand still for one 
instant. When his master brought him into the parlour to 
show me, I certainly never saw such a sight. I could 
scarce tell which was the head and which the tail ; for he 
went round about, up and down, in and out, this way and 
that, with such rapidity that I could form no idea at all as 
to his size, shape, or colour, except that he looked like an 
India-rubber ball with glistening red streaks about it ; or 
rather like a bundle of aifrighted eels twisting and twining 
in and out of each other for the purpose of hiding. But as 
he grew older, he became more steady and dignified, and 
used to sit in state, on a crimson velvet cushion fringed with 
gold lace, and placed on the bar-parlour mahogany table, 
with large bright candlesticks and mould candles on each 
side, so that visitors might see him from the front of the 
bar. And this was Tiny, the then rat-killing wonder of the 
world, and conqueror in about five thousand life and death 
battles with rats. 
I shall now give some of his wonderful performances. 
When nine months old, and weighing only four pounds 
and a half, he won two matches at six rats each. When he 
weighed five pounds, he won twenty difierent matches at 
twelve rats each, and fifteen matches at twenty rats each. 
His next match was to kill fifty rats before he was taken 
out of the pit, which he won cleverly, never stopping till he 
had destroyed the whole. Tin}^ was then matched to destroy 
one hundred rats in thirty-five minutes, which task he accom- 
