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es, 410. THE PUG DOG. Its history and progress, 412--a pug saves the life of the Prince of Orange, 413--a lady incurs a pug's displeasure for preventing him from stealing, 414--a pug pronounces the word William, 415--ditto Elizabeth, 416--the Comforter, 416. 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. BULL-DOG. Description of, 454--saves a shipwrecked crew, 457. DALMATIAN OR COACH-DOG. Finds its way from France to England, 461--affection for a horse, 462. GREAT DANISH DOG. Discovers a murderer under the bed, 464--dies of starvation rather than eat his master's game within reach, 465--rings a convent bell for his dinner, 466. CUR DOG. Prevents a man from stealing a bridle, 468--carries his master's dinner to him daily, 470--pursues a pony and conducts him to the stable, 474. LURCHER. Hunting rabbits, 477--attacks a fox and is killed by the hounds, 479. BAN DOG. Gratitude for a f
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