[A] Daniel's "Rural Sports."
[B] Daniel's "Rural Sports."
[C] Thornton's "Instincts."
[D] "Sportsman's Cabinet."
[E] Ballet, in his "Dissertations sur la Mythologie Francaise," shows
that this popular story of the dog of Montargis is much older than the
time of Charles V.; and that Albericus, an old monkish chronicler,
records it as happening in the reign of Charlemagne, anno 780.
[F] See the entire poem in Tomkins' "Beauties of English Poetry."
18mo. 1847.
[G] "I fear this is a sad geological anachronism; however, I cannot
but hope that the Irish wolf-dog will yet be found in some cavern,
associated with the prototypes of Ireland's earliest heroes who
peopled the land soon after it emerged from the deep,
'Great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.'"
[H] O'Keefe, "Wicklow Gold Mines."
[I] A similar instance of canine intelligence will be found in p. 51
of the present volume.
[J] "The Sportsman's Cabinet."
[K] Tenbeia portus est Cambriae meridionalis, ubi Belgarum colonis a
rege, ut fertur, Henrico primo locata est. Horum posteri a
circumjacente Celticae originis populo lingua etiam nunc omnino
discrepant.
[L] Infinitivo, quem vocant, hoc in ier desinente solus credo, inter,
melioris notae, quos habemus, elegorum scriptores usus est Catullus:
sed qualis ille Poeta! sed quantus in omni genere Latini carminis et
artifex elegantiae et magister!
[M] His master's pocket-book, with which Tippo, the only living
creature saved from the wreck, came ashore.
[N] See Bewick's "Quadrupeds," p. 306, 1st ed.
[O] A celebrated portrait painter, and Secretary to the Scottish
Academy of Painting. This gentleman also excelled in the portraits of
animals.
[P] "Sometimes the members or domestics of the convent have been
sufferers in their efforts to save others. On the 17th of December,
1825, three domestics of the convent with two dogs descended to the
vacherie, on the Piedmontese side of the mountain, and were returning
with a traveller, when an avalanche overwhelmed them. All perished
except one of the dogs, which escaped by its prodigious strength,
after having been thrown over and over. Of the poor victims, none were
found until the snow of the avalanche had melted in the returning
summer, when the first was discovered on the 4th of June, and the last
on the 7th of July."
[Q] Mrs. Grosvenor, now of Richmond, Surrey.
[R] For other instances of speaking dogs see _ante_, p. 49.
[S] In p. 147 a similar anecdote has been recorded of a Newfoundland
dog and a spaniel; and in p. 221 an instance is given of the revenge
taken by a Colley on a tailor's dog.
[T] Or if the weather be fine and warm they may run out and dry
themselves.--Ed.
[U] Sea-air, however, especially during long sea-voyages, perhaps in
connexion with salt meat, has been known to produce the distemper in
dogs.--Ed.
[V] House-dogs fed on raw meat, bones, and liver, soon become
offensive neighbours; the more so in proportion to their want of
outdoor exercise.--Ed.