THE TURNSPIT.
Recollections of it, [418]—an industrious dog punishes his lazy fellow-labourer, [419]—one dog forces another to take his turn at the wheel, [420].
THE FOXHOUND.
Somerville's lines on, [421]—friendship between a fox and a pack of hounds, [424]—dog always attacks the fox's head, [424]—a hound finds its way back from Lincolnshire to Frogmore, [425]—dog found swimming across the Channel, [425]—dog finds its way back from Ireland to Liverpool, [425]—three hounds escape from their kennel in Ireland and return to Leicestershire, [426]—bitch after losing her eye continues to follow the fox, [427]—three hounds hunt a fox alone for seven hours, [428]—pack of hounds hunt a fox for eight hours, [428]—a hound follows a fox for thirty hours, [429]—foxhound follows with her new-born pup in mouth, [429]—hounds follow a fox for four days, [430]—fox leaps a precipice of sixty yards and is followed by the hounds, [433]—foxhounds refuse to eat a bag-fox, [435].
BEAGLE.
Description of, [438]—lines on, by Dryden and Pope, [439].
MASTIFF.
Description of, [440]—detects and kills a housebreaker, [443]—mastiff engages a bear, a leopard, and a lion, [444]—prevents his master from being murdered by his valet, [446]—gentle towards children, [448]—killed by the wheel of a cart rather than desert his charge, [449]—attacks a horse which had trodden upon him, [450]—drops a snarling cur into the water, [453].