MISCELLANEA. 
478 
civilization as England, that it can ever be necessary for a single 
horse to travel one hundred miles at a stretch ? 
We have no objection to the reasonable display of a horse’s 
powers, either in trotting matches, races, or otherwise ; but we 
do protest against such outrageous demands upon an animal’s 
strength, courage, and endurance as the following table dis¬ 
plays :— 
Minutes. Seconds. 
First ten miles . 
. 68 
30 
Second ditto. 
. 69 
60 
Stopped . 
. 6 
40 
20 miles in 2 hours and 6 min. 
Third . 
. 60 
0 
Fourth. 
. 61 
30 
Fifth. 
. 60 
10 
Stopped .. 
. 3 
30 
60 miles in 6 h. 1 Om. and 10 sec. 
Sixth . 
. 60 
30 
Seventh . 
. 60 
10 
• 
Stopped . 
. 3 
0 
70 miles in 7 h. 13 m. and 10 sec. 
Eighth. 
. 69 
10 
Ninth. 
. 68 
20 
90 miles in 9 h. 14 m. and 40 sec. 
Tenth. 
.. 60 
0 
Beings the one hundred miles 
o 
and forty seconds.” 
in 
ten hours, fourteen minutes. 
The Shepherd’s Dog. 
Many dogs have an ear for music, and cannot hear a shrill 
note without breaking into a corresponding howl. They are now, 
for the most part, excluded from churches ; but at no very distant 
period it was common for them to attend their masters thither in 
the country parishes ; and large bands being thus assembled, 
they did not scruple^to interrupt the service by gambolling about 
the passages, snarling, fighting, and other indecorous behaviour. 
Some of them, too, whose aural nerves were nicely strung, while 
the psalms were singing, at those turns of the tune which 
peculiarly affected them, struck in with a howling that was apt 
to discompose the younger part of the congregation, and greatly 
scandalized others; so the intrusion of dogs has been at length 
prohibited. But the evil cannot be altogether prevented, for 
many will not stay behind their masters; if tied up, they gnaw 
the rope, and chains are not to be had for confining them. If 
they are shut up, why, ten to one, some article vanishes from 
the place where they are confined, or a child, with whom they 
are favourites, is determined to see how they are passing the 
time, and, opening the door, allows them to escape. But some 
