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cafe a fmall baflcet is fattened round the dog's neck, filled 
with food proper for re-animating life almoft exhaiitted; 
and, by following the. humane meffenger, an unhappy 
creature is thus frequently (hatched from impending de- 
ftrubtion.” 
The following anecdote, publifiied in the Monthly 
Magazine for April 1802, furnifhes an inftance, in our 
own country, of that fagacity and attachment which fo 
juftly contribute to make the dog our favourite. “ Thofe 
valleys, or glens as they are called, which interfeft the 
Grampian mountains,' in Scotland,'are chiefly inhabited 
by (hepherds. The paftures, over which each flock is 
permitted to range, extend many miles in every diredtion. 
The (hepherd never has a view of his whole flock at 
once, except when they are colleiSted for the purpofe of 
fale or (hearing. His occupation is to make daily excur¬ 
sions to the different extremities of his paftures in fuccef- 
fion ; and to turn back, by means of his dog, any ftragg- 
fers that may be approaching the boundaries of his neigh¬ 
bours. In one of thefe excurfions, a (hepherd happened 
to carry along with him one of his children, an infant 
about three years old. After traverfing his paftures for 
Tome time, attended by his dog, the (hepherd found him- 
felf under the neceflity of afeending a fummit at Come 
diftance, to have a more extenfive view of his range. As 
the afeent was too fatiguing for the child, lie left him on 
a fmall plain at the bottom, with drift injunctions not 
to (fir from it till his return. Scarcely, however, had 
he gained the fummit, when tlve horizon was fuddenly 
darkened by one of thofe impenetrable mitts which fre¬ 
quently obfeure thofe mountains. The anxious father 
battened back to find his child; but unfortunately miffed 
his way in the defeent. After a fruitlefs fearch of many 
hours amongft the moraffes and cataracts, he was at length 
overtaken by night. Still wandering on without know¬ 
ing whither, he at length came to the verge of the mitt; 
and, by the light of the moon, diicovered that he had 
reached the bottom of his valley, and was now within a 
ftiort diftance of his cottage. To renew the fearch that 
night was equally fruitlefs and dangerous. He was there¬ 
fore obliged to return to his cottage, having loft both his 
child, and his faithful dog, which had attended him for 
years. Next morning, by day-break, the (hepherd, ac¬ 
companied by a band of his neighbours, let out in fearch 
of his child ; but, after a day (pent in fruitlefs fatigue, 
he was compelled by the approach of night to defeend 
from the mountain. On returning to his cottage, he found 
that the dog, which he had loft the day before, had been 
home, and on receiving his ufual allowance, a piece of 
oat-cake, had inftantly gone off again. For feveral fuc- 
cefiive days the fltepherd renewed the fearch for his child, 
and (fill on returning home at evening difappointed to his 
cottage, he found that the dog had been home, and, on 
receiving his ufual allowance of oat-cake, had inftantly 
difappeared. Struck with'this,Angular circumftance, he 
remained at home one day ; and when th'e dog as ufual 
departed with his piece of bake, he refolved to follow 
him, and find out the caufe of itis ftrange procedure. 
The dog led the way to a cataradf, at fome diftance from 
the fpot where the ihepherd had left his child. The 
banks of the cataraft, almoft joined at the top, yet fepa- 
rated by an abyfs of prodigious depth, prefented that 
appearance which fo often aftonifties and appals the tra¬ 
vellers that frequent the Grampian mountains; and indi¬ 
cates that thefe ftupendous chafms were not the filent 
work of time, but the fudden effeft of fome violent convul¬ 
sion of nature. Down one of thefe rugged and almoft per¬ 
pendicular defeents, the dog began, without helitation, to 
make his way, and at laft difappeared into a cave, the 
mouth of which was nearly upon a level with the torrent. 
The (hepherd with difficulty followed ; but on entering 
the cave, what were his emotions, when he beheld his 
infant eating with much fitisfadlion the cake which the 
dog had juft brought him, while the faithful animal 
&o©d by, eyeing his young charge with the utmoft com* 
placencc! From the fituation in which the child was 
found, it appears that he had wandered to the brink of 
the precipice, and then either fallen or fcrambled down 
till he reached the cave; which the dread of the torrent 
had afterwards prevented him from quitting. The dog, 
by means of his feent, had traced him to the fpot ; and 
afterwards prevented him from (larving by giving up to 
him his own daily allowance. He appears never to have 
quitted the child by night or day, except when it was 
neceffary to go for its food ; and then he was always feen 
running at full fpeed to and from the cottage.—For the 
Natural Hiftory of the Dog, and other (hiking inftances 
of the fagacity, attachment, and intelligence, of this ani¬ 
mal, fee the article Canis, vol. iii. p. 715. See alio 
Hound, Pointer, Spaniel; and the articles Game, 
Hunting, and Shooting. 
With refpebt to property in dogs, the law takes notice 
of a greyhound, maftiif dog, fpaniel, and tumbler ; and 
trover will lie for them. Cro. Eliz. 125. A man hath a 
property in a maftiff: and where a maftitf falls on ano¬ 
ther dog, the owner of that dog cannot juftify the killing 
the maftiff; unlefs there was no other way to fave his 
dog, as that he could not take off the maftiff, &c. 3 Salk. 
139. The owner of a dog is bound to muzzle him if 
mifehievous, but not otherwife: and if a man doth keep 
a dog, that ufeth to bite cattle, &c. if after notice given 
to him of it, or his knowing the dog is mifehievous, the 
creature (ball do any hurt, the mafter fhall be refponfible 
for it. Cro. Car. 234. Stra. 1264. By 10 Geo. III. c. 18, 
if any perfon (hall (leal any dog or dogs, they (hall be 
liable to forfeit for the firft offence from thirty to twenty 
pounds, or be committed to gaol, for from twelve to fix 
months, at the diferetion of two juftices; for the fecond 
offence to forfeit from fifty to thirty pounds, or be im- 
prifonea for from eighteen to twelve months, and alfo 
whipped. A punilhnlent perhaps not too fevere for no¬ 
torious dog-ftealers ; but which may afford a dangerous 
handle for oppreffion : and Burn, title Dogs, Teems fe- 
riotifly to doubt whether the ftatute extends to bitches ; a 
queftion that we believe has never yet been argued in a 
court of law. 
He who would hang his Dog, firft gives out that he 
is mad.” When a man is about to do an unhandfome 
thing by another, he feldom fails of finding out fome 
plaufible pretence. The Spanifh Cay, Quien a fa perrct 
quiere aqiiidr, rabia le ha de levantar. 
“ Hungry Dogs will eat dirty puddings.” The La. 
tins fay, Jejunus raroJlomachus vulgaria temnit. The French, 
Quand on a faint, on trouve toute chofe bonne. (Hunger makes 
every thing tafte well.) The Germans fay, Wein kafe und 
brod nichtfehmerht, der ifl nicht, kungrig. (He who cannot 
eat bread and cheefe muft not be a hungry.) The French 
fay likewife, A un affame tout ejl bon. (To a hungry man 
every thing is reliftiable.) The proverbs all fufficiently 
explain themfelves, 
“ He who has a mind to beat his Dog, will eafily find 
a flick.” This proverb is generally applied to fuch per- 
fons who out of prejudice and ill defign, feek occafion of 
blame and fcandal againft other perfons, and aggravate 
the mod pardonable offences into flagrant crimes: it 
feems to be borrowed of the Latin; Qui vult credere canem , 
facile invenit fufem. The Greeks fay, Mtxpce Tr^oipavi; es~i 
tx y.xy.ui ; and the French, A petite ackoifon, le loup 
prend le mouton. The Latins fay likewife, Malefacere qui 
vult, numquam non caufatn inveniet. We fay alfo to the fame 
purpofe, To him. that wills, ways will not be wanting. 
To DOG, v. a. To hunt, as a dog, infidioufly and in. 
defatigably.-—I have been purfued, dogged, and way-laid, 
through feveral nations. Pope. —Hate dogs their rife, and 
infult mocks their fall. Vanity of Human Wi/hes, 
I, his defpiteful Juno, fent him forth 
From courtly friends, with camping foes to live, 
Where death and danger dog the heels of worth. Shakefp. 
DQG’s-BANE, /. in botany. See Apocynum. 
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