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terity an'd' persuasive machinations, that would not be 
gainsaid, urged stragglers closer into the bunch, to 
keep it intact. It was an enlivening sight to watch for 
a few minutes this anxious, energetic, fleet-footed and 
gifted little cattle driver d© his work. No one accom- 
panied him to direct his efforts, he received no instruc- 
tions, nor did he appear to require any, but all alone and 
unaided he continued with tireless perseverance, eager- 
ness and snap to scurry hither and thither yelping, con- 
trolling and guiding, until he got his charge safely past 
the street crossing. All this to be repeated again and 
again at the many street crossings en route. It is no 
unusual thing for this dog to conduct a good-sized drove 
•of cattle alone from the cattle yards to Gooderham's 
shed,s — four or five miles — right through the city, and to 
bring them to their destination without any mishap. 
Those famous Scotch dogs Bob, Son of Battle, and Red 
Wull, could scarcely have managed sheep more adroitly 
than this little fellow managed cattle. 
The Beddlington terrier is an excellent dog, and, 
although perhaps not so popular as he was a few years 
ago, he has yet many admirers. The Airedale terrier and 
Dachshund are very much in favor at present, and are 
displacing to some extent the fox terrier from the high 
position he has long occupied in the estimation of dog 
fanciers. The Airedale is a perfect "gentleman's dog." 
He has great strength, a rugged constitution, intelli- 
gence, docility, possesses unflinching courage, .and^. will 
do almost anything that' is expected of a dog. ' . , 
-,. Not the "least interesting of the- employments to \yhiGh 
-the dog has been trained is that of leading about the 
blind, which is often done with an intelligence and af- 
fectionate carefulness worthy of all praise. It was an- 
nounced the other day that a brigade of dogs had been 
.fjOrmed in London, England, for collecting funds for the 
.widows and. orphans of the men who have fallen in action 
in South Africa, one dog having collected $415 in a few 
weeks. The article making the announcement says this 
■ dog will stand wagging his tail until he gets a subscrip- 
.jtion; he then ceases to wag and proceeds on his way. 
Let Us see what some of the great poets and prose 
writers have to say about the dog. We arc told in a 
poem written by John Barbour, about 1395, that John 
of Lome had "a sleuth hound sae guid, that change he 
'Wald' for naething." This hound was once sent into the 
woods to track Bruce, who was hiding from his enemies. 
Bruce only escaped by entering a stream, thereby de- 
stroying the scent. 
Blind Harry, the minstrel (about 1490), also tells of a 
hound. "Sicker of scent to follow them that fled." hav- 
ing been employed to track Sir William Wallace when he 
was fighting in defense of his country against the English, 
Wallace evading the dog by killing the tired horse he 
was riding. When the sleuth came to the bleeding 
carcase — 
"She stoppit, nor further wald she gae frae the time she found 
the ijjuid." 
: About. 1350 Chaucer wrote of "the Pitiful Prioress" 
who— 
"Small hounds had, that she fed 
With roasted flesh, and milk, and wasted bread, 
But sore wept she if one of them were dead, 
Or if men smote it with a yard smart, 
And all was conscience and tender heart." 
Wordsworth, Goldsmith and Cowper wrote appre- 
ciatingly and feelingly about the dog. Burns, in his "Twa 
Dogs," describes the Newfoundland dog in this charac- 
teristic manner: 
"His hair, his size, his mouth, his lugs, 
Show'd he was nane o' Scotland's dogs; 
But whalpit some place far abroad, 
Whare sailors gang to fish for cod." 
. Where Can a better description of a collie be found 
than this: ' .. ■ . • ■ ' . 
• "His tonest, soneie, ; bawsn't face, 
Ay gat him freends. in ilka place ; 
His breast was white, his tousie back; 
Wee! clad wi' coat o' glossie black; 
His gawcie tail, wi' upward curl. 
Hung ow'er his hurdles wi' a swirl." 
Rogers dilates on the sagacity of the St. Bernard and 
its usefulness. ■ 
Spenser tells a pathetic tale of Llewellyn, King John's 
son-in-law, who, upon his return from a hunting expe- 
dition, found his dog Gelert covered with blood, and 
missing his child suspected the dog of having killed it: 
" 'Hellhound, my child's by thee devoured!' 
The frantic father cried; 
Add to the hilt his vengeful sword 
He plunged in Gelert's 'side." ■ 
Investigating further,: Llewellyn found the child under 
^.tumbled heap of. rubbish, "all glowing and rosy and 
j.ust awakened.fro^n a peacefvil. sleep," and near by — - 
■ "I-ay a gatint wdlf, all torn and dead. 
' The gallant hotind the wolf had slain 
To save ■ Llewellyn's heir." 
Scott, than whom no one ever loved a dog more sin- 
cerely, said: "The Almighty, who gave the dog to be 
the companion of our pleasures and our toils, hath in- 
vented him. with .'a nature noble and incapable df deceit." 
Southey said" of the dog, that though— ' 
, . . • "Lacking discourse of reason, 
He, with uncorrupted feeling and dumb fqith, 
Puts lordly man to shame." 
Byron said many complimentary and beautiful things 
of the dog, as did also Home, Lytton, Browning, Oliver 
Wendell Holmes. Hood— it was Hood who defined "dog- 
matism as puppyism arrived at maturity"— Dickens, Ten- 
nyson, Sir Edwin Arnold, Buchanan, Dean Swift, our 
own Goldwin Smith, as also the Khanl ~ ' 
Herrick's epitaph to the dead spaniel is most ex- 
pressive: 
"Now thou art dead, no eye shall ever see 
For shape and service, spaniel like to thee. 
This shall my love do, give thy sad death one 
Tear, that deserves of me a million." 
Shakespeare thoroughly understood and loved a dog. 
In Timon of Athens he says: 
"I am misanthropos, and hate mankind 
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, 
That I might love thee." 
Blacklock causes his dog to utter this proud boast: 
"I never barked when out of season; 
I never bit without a reason; 
I ne'er insulted weaker brother; 
Nor wronged by force or fraud another, 
Tho' brutes are placed a rank below, 
Happy for man could he say sol" 
Every one has read Campbell's "Poor Dog Tray," 
commencing, "On the green banks of Shannon, when 
Sheelah was nigh." Tray appears to be a favorite name 
for a dog. Any number of poems have been written in 
praise of dogs of that name. A popular song in this 
country fifty years ago was "Old Dog Tray," one verse 
of which runs: 
"When thoughts recall the past, his eyes are on me cast, 
I knoAv that he feels what my breaking heart would say, 
Although he cannot speak, I'll vainly, vainly seek, 
A better friend than old dog Tray." 
Gay thought so much of his dog that he copied him 
as nearly as he could. 
"My dog, the trustiest of his kind, 
With gratitude inflames my mind; 
I mark his true, his faithful way, 
Arid in my service copy Tray." 
Praed draws a picture that we have often.- seen in visit- 
ing friends who have a liking for a dog: , :, 
"Don and Sanctio, Tramp and Tray, 
Upon the doorsteps collected, 
Wagged their tails and seemed to say: 
'Our master knows you; you're expected.'" 
The large hearted Dr. Norman MacLeod paid a 
tribitte to the dog in some facetious verses: 
" "Our doggie he cam' hame at e'en, 
And scartit baith his lugs, O! 
Quo' he: 'If folk had only tails. 
They'd be maist as gude as dogs, O!" 
Matthew Arnold is the author of some humorous, yet 
pathetic verses styled "Kaiser Dead," Kaiser was pur- 
chased in London and "vouched by glorious renown 
as a Dachshund true," but as he advanced toward ma- 
turity it became evident that there had been a mistake 
somewhere, and to the astonishment of his owner, the 
pedigreed "Dachshund true" developed into half-collie. 
Mr. Arnold says: 
"His mother, most majestic dame. 
Of blood unmixed, from Potsdam came; 
And Kaiser's race we deemed the Same — 
No lineage higher. 
And so he bore the imperial name, 
But, ah, his sire!" 
"Soon, soon, the days conviction bring, 
The collie hair, the collie swing. 
The tail's indomitable ring; 
The eyes' unrest — 
The case was clear; a mongrel thing 
Kai stood confest." 
But notwithstanding the unfortunate blemish in 
Kaiser's breeding, he had many admirable qualities, and 
the gentle Matthew loved him none the less and sadly 
mourned his loss. 
Manjr writers, in lamenting the death of their canine 
friends, write as if they expected to meet them in the 
other world. Horsfield closes some beautiful verses on 
the death of a Gordon setter by asking: 
"Is a man a hopeless heathen if he dreams of one fair day, 
When, with spirit free from shadows gray and cold, 
He may wander through the heather in the 'unknown far away,' 
With his good dog before him as of old?" 
Pope writes: 
"The poor Indian, whose untutored mind 
Sees God in clouds or hears Him in the wind, 
Hopes that, transplanted to yonder azure sky. 
His faithful dog will bear him company." 
Barry Cornwall closes some touching verses, to his 
bloodhound thus: 
"Well, Herod — go tell them whatever may be, • 
I'll hope I may ever be found by thee; 
If in sleep, then in sleep ; if with skies around, 
May thou follow e'en thither— ^roy dear bloodhound." 
A writer in Punch a few weeks ago bemoans in some 
verses full of tenderness and pathos, the death of his 
dog, and closes thus: 
"Such was my dog, Wfio' tioW, -without my aid, 
Hunts through the shadow land, himself a shade; 
Or. crouched intent before some ghostly gate. 
Waits for my step, as here he used to wait." 
Southey, writing on the death of an old dog; gives his 
ideas of canine immortality after this fashion: ' 
"Fare thee well! Mine is no narrow creed; 
And He who gave thee being did not frame 1 
The mystery of life to be the sport 
Of merciless man! There is another world 
For all that live and move — a better one! ^ " 
Where the proud bipeds, who would fain confine 
Infinite goodness to the little bounds 
0{ their own charity, may envy theel" 
A gentleman going through the streets of a Western 
city the other day took a fancy to a dog belonging to 
a German laborer. "Look, here," said the gentleman, 
"that is a poor dog anyway, but I'll give you $5 for 
him." 
"Yaas," said the German, "I know he is a werry poor 
dog, and he ain't wort almost nothin', but dere ish von 
little ding mit dat dog vot T can't sell — I can't sell de 
vag of his tail ven I comes home at night." 
Ah, that's it! It was the mute, aflfectionate greeting 
and tender solicitude for his master's welfare, as ex- 
pressed in the wag of the dog's tail, that the old German 
could not part with, and it is because the "humble 
friend and companion" of man seems as truly to know 
and sympathize with the sorrows and joys of his master 
that he is alike "the pampered minion of royalty, and 
the half-starved partaker of the beggar's crust." Cuvier, 
the celebrated scholar and naturalist, makes the strong- 
assertion that the dog "is the most complete, the most 
singular and the most useful conquest ever made by 
man." R. F. Easson. 
W, K. C 
The entries for the Westminster Kennel Club's twenty- 
fourth show, Feb. 20 to 23: St. Bernards, 126; New- 
foundlands, 3; mastiffs, 14; Great Danes, 8g; blood- 
hounds, 18 ; Russian wolf hounds, 37 ; deerhounds, 25 ; 
greyhounds, 32, foxhounds, 9; pointers, 102; English 
setters, 116; Irish setters, 44; Gordon setters, 28; re- 
trievers, 3 ; Chesapeake Bay dogs, i ; Irish water spaniels, 
i; Clumber spaniels, 3; field spaniels, 35; cocker spaniels,' 
162; collies, 103; Old English sheep dogs, 8; Dalmatians, 
5; poodles, 51; bull dogs, 100; bull terriers, 113; Airedale 
terriers, 34 ; Boston terriers, 141 ; French bull dogs, 49 ; 
beagles, 92; dachshunds, 48; fox terriers, 156; Irish ter- 
riers, 74 ; Scottish terriers, 22 ; Black and Tan terriers, 22 ; 
Skye terriers, 4; Bedlington terriers, 7; Yorkshire ter- 
riers, 25 ; other toy terriers, 13 ; pugs, 28 ; Pomeraneans, 
51; toy spaniels, 107; miscellaneous, 8. Total, 2,108. 
J. A. D. Mortimer, Supt. 
Points and Flashes. 
"At the annual meeting of the Philadelphia Kennel Club 
held on the Sth, the following officers were elected : 
President, Dr. G. G. Davis ; Vice-President, S. Murray 
Mitchell; Treasurer, Dr. Alexander Glass; Secretary. 
Francis G. Taylor. It was decided to oflfer as a special 
prize a silver cup, valued at $50, for the best setter or 
pointer owned by a. citizen of Pennsylvania, to be com- 
peted for at the Westminster Kennel Club, to be held at 
Madison Square Garden, New York, on the 20th inst, 
Arrangements were made, looking to the leasing of field 
trial grounds for trials for the ensuing year. 
The annual meeting of the Gordon Setter Club of 
America will be held at Madison Square Garden during 
the New York Dog Show, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 1900, at 
2 P. M. — L. A. Van Zandt, Secretary and Treasurer, 
No. 938 Prospect avenue, New York. 
Minota. 
MiNOTA, whose lines were given in the preceding num- 
ber, was built by a syndicate of members of the Royal 
Canadian Y. Gr, which syndicate also built Beaver. Both 
yachts were constructed by James Andrews, at Oalcville, 
on the lake a few miles west of Toronto, and were ex- 
cellently put together, Mr. Andrews being noted for the 
c^are he bestows on this class of work. They were, of 
course, franied to the scantling table of the Y. R. U. The 
two were similarly arranged, with a large square open 
hatch amidships and a smaller one for the helmsman aft. 
They were open from end to end below, with a light shelf 
on each side for the crew to sit on and to stow the light 
sails. Owing to her very shoal body. Beaver's floor was 
necessarily quite high, but that of Minota was raised a 
little more than it would have been if she had been fitted 
with a cabin, in order that the crew standing below could 
easily reach the deck. There was no cockpit to the 
steering well, but a light floor for the helmsman to 
stand on. 
At the mast a heavy thwart was fitted, of 3in. spruce 
plank, well fastened, at a height of about ift. above the 
floor. All halyards and other ropes led through the deck 
to this thwart, some being belayed on pins, while others 
such as the main and jib halyards were led through blocks 
on the thwart to purchases ranged along the floor. In 
this way the entire rig could be worked from below deck. 
The fittings of the two were of the lightest and sim- 
plest description, the yachts being designed solely for 
racing in the neighborhood of Toronto. The dimensions 
of Minota's spars and sails were: 
Mast— 
From stem at L. W,L. , . 7ft. 6in. 
. Deck to hounds. 34ft. 4in. 
, Deck to truck. 38ft. 6in. 
Bowsprit — ■ 
Beyond stem at L.W.L 13ft. 6in. 
Outboard 9^t. 3in. 
Boom 38ft. 
Gaff 22ft. 3in. 
Club of jib i8ft. gin. 
Mainsail — ■ 
. .■ Hoist .-. 22ft.. gin. " 
.. Tack to peak .48ft. 
Qew to throat 44ft. gin. 
Areas-^. 
Mainsail 999 sq. ft. 
Jib - ■ -350 sq. ft. 
Total 1,349 sq. ■ ft. 
The spars were hollow, the blocks were bronze, of a 
special pattern designed and made to order in Toronto 
for those boats, the wire rigging was imported from 
Scotland, and the sails, of a very fine imported material, 
were made by a local sailniaker, the mainsails being cross 
cut. 
