ve pride
in the race, seeing him one day employed in thus destroying a whole
litter, told his grace how much he should be delighted to possess one of
them. The duke's reply was a characteristic one. 'Pray, sir, which of my
estates should you like to have?'"

There are shepherds who possess collies, such _proud_, useful servants
and friends, that no bribe would induce them to part with them. But what
old favourite dog or even bird is there that any one would part with?
Man, be he scavenger or duke, is very similar in this species of
attachment.

LORD NORTH AND THE DOG.

In several of the caricatures published about the year 1783, when Fox
and Burke had joined Lord North, and helped to form what is called the
Coalition Ministry, a dog is represented. This, says Mr Wright,[86] is
said to be an allusion to an occurrence in the House of Commons. During
the last defensive declamation of Lord North, on the eve of his
resignation, a dog, which had concealed itself under the benches, came
out and set up a hideous howling in the midst of his harangue. The house
was thrown into a roar of laughter, which continued until the intruder
was turned out; and then Lord North coolly observed, "As the new member
has ended his argument, I beg to be allowed to continue mine."

PERTHES DERIVES HINTS FROM HIS DOG.

In a letter, written when he first came to Gotha, Perthes, the
publisher, says--"Do not laugh if I tell you that my dog has given me
many a hint upon human nature. I never before had a dog constantly with
me, and I now ask myself whether the poodle be not a man, and men
poodles. I am not led to this thought by the animal propensities which
we have in common, such as eating, drinking, &c., but by those of a more
refined character. He too is cheerful and dejected, excited and supine,
playful and morose, gentle and bold, caressing and snappish, patient
and refractory; just like us men in all things, even in his dreams! This
likeness is not to me at all discouraging; on the contrary, it suggests
a pleasing hope that this flesh and blood which plagues and fetters us,
is not the real man, but merely the earthly clothing which will be cast
off when he no longer belongs to earth, provided he has not sinfully
chosen to identify himself with the merely material. The devil's chief
seat is not in matter but in the mind, where he fosters pride,
selfishness, and hatred, and by their means destroys not what is
transitory but what is etern