2 Auld felni paky pash. This line, scarcely to be rendered into English, is in itself very descriptive of a cunning old dog. It may be termed an old, mischievous, crafty pate.

3 Bardy tyke, and bauld-A mettled and brave dog.

4 Latch of a pantry.

But now, good Sirs, this day is lost
The best dog in the east-nook coast,.
For never ane durst brag nor boast
Me, for their neck;

But now I must yield up the ghost,
Quo' bonny Heck.

And put a period to my talking,
For I'm unto my exit making:

Sirs, ye may a' gae to the hawking,
And there reflect,

Ye 'll ne'er get sick a dog for maukin
As bonny Heck.

But if my puppies ance were ready,
Which I gat on a bonny lady:

They'll be baith cliver, keen, and beddy,'
And ne'er neglect,

To clink in like their ancient deddy,
The famous Heck."

The profoundly learned, but rugged Porson, was not insensible to canine virtue, as this charade will prove.

CHARADE.

"My first, though the best and most faithful of friends,
You ungen'rously name with the wretch you despise :
My second I speak it with grief-comprehends
All the good, and the great, and the just, and the wise:
Of my whole, I have little or nothing to say,
Except that it marks the departure of day."

(Curfew.)

The learned Dr. Jamieson, quoting this passage, gives up beddy as a word of unknown signification. It may mean ready at bidding or command.

In the Living Librarie,' by Camerarius, translated by J. Mole and his son in 1625, are these verses, said to be by J. Mycillus, a Latin poet.

"Of any beast, none is more faithfull found,

Nor yeelds more pastime in house, plaine, or woods,

Nor keepes his master's person, nor his goods,
With greater care, than doth the dog or hound.

Command; he thee obeyes most readily.

Strike him; he whines and fals down at thy feet.
Call him he leaves his game and comes to thee
With wagging taile, offring his service meeke.

In summer's heat he follows by thy pace:
In winter's cold he never leaveth thee:
In mountaines wild he by thee close doth trace;
In all thy feares and dangers true is he.

Thy friends he loves; and in thy presence lives
By day by night he watcheth faithfully
That thou in peace mayst sleepe; he never gives
Good entertainment to thine enemie.

Course, hunt, in hills, in valleyes, or in plaines;
He joyes to run and stretch out every lim:
To please but thee, he spareth for no paines:
His hurt (for thee) is greatest good to him.

Sometimes he doth present thee with a Hare,

Sometimes he hunts the Stag, the Fox, the Boare,

Another time he baits the Bull and Beare,

And all to make thee sport, and for no more.

If so thou wilt, a Collar he will weare;
And when thou list to take it off againe
Vnto thy feet he coucheth downe most faire,
As if thy will were all his good and gaine.

In fields abroad he lookes unto thy flockes,

Keeping them safe from Wolves, and other beasts: And oftentimes he beares away the knocks

Of some odd thiefe, that many a fold infests.

And as he is the faithful bodies guard,
So is he good within a fort or hold,
Against a quicke surprise to watch and ward;
And all his hire is bread mustie and old.

Canst thou then such a creature hate and spurne? Or barre him from such poore and simple food? Being so fit and faithfull for thy turne,

And no beast else can do thee halfe such good!"

CHAPTER V.

THE ATTRIBUTES AND QUALITIES OF THE DOG PARTIALLY
ILLUSTRATED BY ANECDOTES.

THE attributes of the Dog show his possession of an extent of mind which is little suspected by the unreflective. A varied and copious collection of anecdotes, or, still more, of biographies of dogs,-a canine Plutarch-would prove this in a very striking manner; and by comparison and study lead, perhaps, to some elucidation of the phenomena of thought.

Remarkable instances of the following virtues, feelings, and powers of mind, are well authenticated: