[Illustration:
THE SPANIEL.
]
This kind of dog is of great value, from the readiness with which it
receives instruction, the quickness with which it obeys commands, and
its great docility and strong attachment to its master. Of this one
striking proof may be given. Old Daniel, the gamekeeper to the Rev. Mr.
Corsellis, had reared a Spaniel named Dash, which became his constant
attendant both by night and day. Wherever the gamekeeper appeared, Dash
was never far distant. When the gamekeeper died, little Dash would not
quit the body, but laid upon the bed by its side. After his master was
buried, this faithful dog would frequently visit the room where he
breathed his last, and would remain there for hours. From thence, for
fourteen days he constantly visited the grave, at the end of which time
he died.
Perhaps the most remarkable instance of attachment is that of the little
dog who crept within the clothes of Mary Queen of Scots just previous to
her execution, and could not afterward be separated from the corpse but
by force.
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