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.
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