there is always a plentiful suply of water; and if I remember and understand the language right, some of the inhabitants told me that they were obliged, under penalty, to put out a supply of water for the dogs. Now in all these hot countries, hydrophobia is very rare; and yet in London, no sooner does even the warm weather commence, than we are in alarm with mad dogs. It could therefore, at all events, do no harm to try the experiment, now that we have a regular police, who could attend to it. But if this should prove ineffectual, and our climate be still destined to this annoyance, we should have recourse to more severe measures; and declare war against all the useless mongrels that infest the metropolis. Among the many lamentable cases of persons and animals getting bitten by mad dogs, we may safely say that nineteen in twenty of them originate from people keeping useless curs, which they turn loose to forage on the town, make no return of them, and thus evade the tax. (I always invoke the taxgatherers, when I want to ged rid of a nuisance; but, Lord knows, for no other purpose!) Let me suggest, therefore, that every one should have on his dog a collar, with the name and address, by which the owners of dogs may be found, and made to answer for any depredations committed by, or default in payment of duty for, them. may be added; or a penalty for not having one. Let all dogs that are found loose without collars be taken by the police, and advertised in their district; and if within a certain time, no one comes forward to take charge of a dog and pay the tax (which, if an animal of any apparent value, plenty of people would be glad to do, on speculation, or for the chance of reward from the owner), let the magistrate have the full power of passing sentence of death.

A muzzle

This may appear cruel; but the riddance of useless curs is a minor evil when compared to the distressing events that have so often occurred in the metropolis. It may be asked how are the dogs to be caught? But it would be bad policy to publish the many ways which there are of doing this at the risk of giving finishing lessons to dogstealers.

Annexed is the rough sketch of a mad dog, presented me, for this work, by (the late) Sir Anthony Carlisle.

TO PHYSIC MODERATELY, AND GIVE A FINE COAT TO DOGS.

Take a small handful of the leaves of the wood-laurel : boil it in a quart of water, till reduced to a pint, and mix it with sufficient liquid food to serve five or six dogs. This, given about once a month, in hot weather, I have found to answer better than any thing; but as the woodlaurel in any great quantity is poison, it must be used with the utmost caution.

If a sportsman had his pointers rubbed down and brushed every day, immediately after they came home, and particularly if wet or cold, they would not only have fine coats, but be serviceable to him at least half as long again. This I have proved beyond all doubt.

PRESERVATION OF GAME.

HAVING said enough on the destruction, let me now proceed to the preservation of game.

A man, who, as a friend, had been hospitably entertained, or, as a stranger, accommodated with a day's shooting, would scarcely deserve the name of a gentleman, if he afterwards, clandestinely, set his foot on the ground of one to whom he was thus far indebted; and it is, therefore, extremely illiberal to infer, that a good shot cannot sport like a gentleman; or that, when invited to shoot, he would destroy an unfair quantity of game; so far from it, a first-rate sportsman takes a pride in showing mercy to what is in his power, and piques himself upon strictly conforming to what he thinks would please his host, and being called "a nice gentleman" by an honest gamekeeper. Not only this; but from being cool and steady, he has better nerves to withstand all temptation, than a raw shot, who has scarcely any command of himself upon springing a forbidden bird. There are many 'squires, however, so hoggishly tenacious of their game, that in spite of all reason, they continue their prejudice against a crack shot so far as studiously to avoid his acquaintance; because there are some greedy destroyers, who take an unfair advantage of their own skill and their host's indulgence; and on the other hand, correct men, who have been known to kill an immense bag of game, at his par

ticular request, for the supply of an election dinner, or some other reasonable purpose.

Thus many lords of manors, who would rather lose an ounce of their own blood than a brace of their pheasants, have been striving to preserve every head of game by day, while the poachers, unmolested, were clearing it by wholesale during the night. Sometimes, too, notwithstanding all their caution, their manors are invaded even by day, with old stagers from a garrison, who select market days, when the tenants are absent, and windy weather, when they can manœuvre to leeward and outflank the keepers.

Others again manage to create a diversion in favour of their trespass, by having the keepers drawn to opposite points, with the discharge of double guns and pistols ; or getting some bad shots, on promising them a share of the booty, to throw themselves in the way of the lookers out, and occupy their whole attention; first by running away to give them a chase that will prolong their distance from the real point of attack; and then by warmly arguing in a wrong cause so as to engross their attention with a triumphant explanation of their own knowledge, and their prisoner's ignorance in the game laws.

Many gentlemen-poachers have, by running away, through pretended fear, drawn a gamekeeper off his boundary, who, being possibly there followed by his dogs, and having only a gamekeeper's licence, becomes so far in doubt as to his own safety against information, that he is too happy to compound for the day's sport being finished in peace, by those before whom he may have committed himself.

Some, with a polite bow and shrug of the shoulders, have pretended to be foreigners, who do not understand a