The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-20

short space. leaving Roswal to guard
 the flag. 4 base attack is made in his
 absence, and Kenneth returns to find the flag gone, and, it's faithful deIenoer
 wounded apparently to death in us oe- fense. Kenneth's temorse for the vio-
 Iation of the English banner is scarcely more keen than his grief over the dog,
 who wags his tail and licks his mas
 ter's hand even in the agonies or death. It is most touching scene, drawn Dy
 master hand, and the readers satisfae-
 ton is not less than the knights is rep
 resented to be when the Arabian physi- clan, Saladin disguised, appears oppor- tunely, and by his timely ministration
 saves the hound, who lives to identify
 his till then unknown assailant by
 dragging him bodily from his horse. In
 'Ivanhoe," Curtin, the swineherd, pos
 sesses a noteworthy dog, Fangs by
 name, "a rugged wolfish-looking dog, sort of lureher. half-mastiff, half-grey-
 hound" who assists his master in the
 care of his refractory charges, is wounded by Cedric the Saxon, and whose adventures are carried on throughout the book. # In "Woodstock," again, Scott draws with loving touch the portrait of Sir Henry Lees famous mastin Beyis, who in the first scene accompanies the
 knight to church, where, batting an oc- casional temptation to warble along with the accord, he behaved himself as decorously as any of the congregation, and returned as much edified. perhaps, as some of them;" who had, moreover, saved his masters life, defended his daughter Alice from assault, and fas- tened his teeth into the sacred person of King Charles IT., when the disguised monarch was seeking refuge in Wood-
 stock Lodge. Among Seott's dogs men, tion must needs also be made of the famous breed of pepper-and-mustard terriers described in Guy Mannering, and which have even since borne the
 name of their immortal owner, Dandie Dlnmont. T have six terriers at home, forebye other dogs" said that worthy.
 There's Aud Pepper and Aud Mus tard, and Young Pepper and Young
 Mustard. and Little Pepper and Little
 Mustard. had them a regularly en- tered, first wi the tods and brooks, and now they fear nothing that ever cam wi hairy skin on't.
 Dickens was dog lover, and pos- sessed several dear canine friends. 1t l is recorded in his biographies how greatly moved he was on one occasion by the sympathetic concern evinced by two of his favorites, Turk and Linda, when during a walk he was suddenly struck with lameness. Boisterous com panions as they always were, the sud- den change in him caused them bound- less distress, and for the rest of the journey they crept by the side of their
 master as slowly as he did, never turn | ing from him. The finest dog charac- ter in Dickens novels is undoubtedly Diogenes, the favorite of little Paul
 Dombey, and subsequently, presented by MT. Toots to his sister Florence. "As ridiculous a dog as one would meet with on a summers day: blundering, |ill-favored. clumsy, bullet t-headed dog, continually acting on a wrong idea that there was an enemy in the neighbor- hood whom 1t was meritorious to bark at" Nevertheless, despite his pecu- liarities, his habit of carrying his tongue out as if he had come express to a dispensary to be examined for his health," his falling upon the man ser want, morally convinced that he was the enemy whom he had parked at
 round the corner all his life and had never seen yet, Diogenes is a most estimable animal, and holds our affect tions till the end of the book.
 | Not 50 Dora's little dog lip in David
 Copperfield," spoiled lap dog drawn to the very life, whose most merltorious action is his pathetic death at the mo ment when his foolish. fascinating mis- | tress, Copperfield's ''child wife,
 breathes her last. Then there is Sikes' | dog in 4"oliver Twist white and shaggy, with red eyes, and his face scratched and torn in twenty different places" continually kicked and beaten
 and half-kilied by his ruffian master but who clings to him with dumb fideli- | ty through all, and in the last scene when the fugitive murderer hangs him. self from the roof of the house, perishes
 in a wild attempt to reach his body, Reference is also owing to the perform I ing dogs in "Old Curiosity Shop" one l unhappy member of which troupe of ar lists being unlucky enough to lose a half-penny during the day is denied
 his supper and obliged instead to grind I mournftll music out of barrel organ Sometimes in quick time, sometimes ir slow, but never leaving off for an in. stant,'' while watching with despairine ! eyes his companions at their meal | Lovers of "Pickwick" also Will recall \ Mir. Jingle's celebrated "Ponto," de. scribed by his master in characteristic l fashion" Pointer-surprising instinct shooting one day--entered enclosure
 whistled--dog stopped-whistled again | Pontoi Ponto!-no go-stock still
 would not move-staring at a board 'Gamekeeper has orders to shoot all | dogs found in this enclosure'-would
 not pass Invaluable dog that-yery."
 Thackeray, however, makes little use | or mention of dogs. George Eliot also | lays no great stress upon them, though | 1z e.,s4 f,.If f...a ss,s