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than seeing dogs in carts. His first impulse is to 
protest against it as ill-usage. In reply he will learn 
that a careful inquiry had been held many years ago ; 
that Mr. Grantley Berkeley, whose personal affection 
for animals, as shown in his Memoirs , was almost a 
passion, had been consulted, and that the verdict had 
been in favour of continuing their use. Many 
months of careful observation confirmed this view. 
No animal so enjoys his work, or does it so willingly, 
as a dog. Except the elephant, no other animal can 
be trusted to work alone like the smugglers’ dogs 
between France and Belgium, or collies watching- 
sheep. They are scarcely ever struck or beaten either 
in Holland or Belgium. They do not fight, and the 
only drawbacks to their use are their readiness to 
attack a stranger who approaches their cart when 
left in their charge, and the severe hydrophobia 
44 scares ” which their numbers at times produce. 
They are exuberantly happy in their daily work, and 
come of their own accord at the right hour to be 
harnessed. Small dogs in little carts are always 
ready and anxious to race against big ones ; and 
though at the Hague the barking and galloping of 
dogs within the city-bounds is forbidden, as 44 furious 
driving ” is here, the dogs, when returning with empty 
carts, may race as much as they please. Two little 
boys, with their cart drawn by a sturdy bull-terrier, 
used often to wait for and race a couple of half-bred 
mastiffs drawing a cart with two men, the owners 
running alongside, and jumping on when the carts 
