Gun-shot wounds may be treated with the following ointment :

Goose Grease, Turpentine, and Spirits of Wineof each an equal quantity.

These ingredients must be melted over a slow fire, and when strained, applied to the wound.

This will be found a useful ointment for most wounds; but should they be very extensive, stickingplaster should be applied in preference to using a needle and thread; this last method is very apt to produce ulceration.

The cautery, or lunar caustic, should be applied to wounds occasioned by the bite of another dog if he have any symptoms of hydrophobia.

For sprains generally, the following embrocation will be found efficient :-one part of turpentine to two of spirits of wine.

Dogs meet with fractures far less frequently than any other animal; yet such as are allowed to run about stables, follow coaches, &c. are liable to acci. dents; huntsmen will also, unavoidably at times, ride over hounds. Fractures of the shoulder and thigh should be treated as follows:

Apply a plaster of pitch, spread on stiff leather, upon the outer portion of the leg, then attach a board over the elongated ends of the leather, the whole being kept moderately firm by means of a bandage.

Sulliman, in his "American Journal," relates the following:

"I have a favourite spaniel dog, of the King Charles' breed, thirteen years old, and as he cannot relate a tale of woe of himself, I propose to do so for him, in as few words as possible. In June last, in a small steel trap set in the cellar, for the purpose of taking rats, he was accidentally caught at about midway

of the tongue, and in this situation he remained about three fourths of an hour. On examination, after he was extricated, the tongue was found started out of its natural position in the mouth some four inches. Every thing was done to relieve his sufferings, and in the hopes that the tongue would adhere to its former position in the mouth, but the tongue being much mutilated, after a lapse of forty-eight hours, the weather being warm, it became perfectly black; at this time, the poor old dog exhibited a desire to leave his kennel, which he was permitted to do, and he went direct for the ocean, where he cooled the fever of his blood by a swim; he thence went away, and was absent alone about half an hour, when he returned to his kennel perfectly tongueless,, having, as it was supposed, torn out his own tongue by putting his paws upon it as he had before been seen to do. He was fed during the time upon boiled rice and soup, and ate the usual quantity, on his head being held up, so that the food would run down his throat. Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, which seems to have been verified in this case, as the old favourite now feeds himself as well as ever he did upon every variety of food, drinks as well as ever, although after the manner of a pig, by running his nose more than usual into the water; and what seems still more remarkable, he barks with the same distinctness as usual on the least intrusion on his premises in the night time, as he did before the loss of his tongue, and in all respects seems as well as he was previous to the accident."

Brown, in his "Anecdotes of Dogs," gives an example of the instinctive dread these animals have of hydrophobia.

"A man who used to come every day to the celebrated Dr. James' house, was so beloved by three

cocker-spaniels which he kept, that they never failed to jump into his lap and caress him the whole time he stayed. It happened that this man was bitten by a mad dog, and the very first night he came under the influence of the distemper, they all ran away from him to the very top of the garret stairs, barking and howling, and showing signs of distress and consternation. The man was cured, but the dogs were not reconciled to him for three years afterwards."

The same author gives the following interesting (though very singular) account of a terrier.

"At Dunrobin Castle, in Sutherlandshire, the northern seat of the Duke of Sutherland, there was in May, 1820, to be seen a terrier bitch nursing a brood of ducklings. She had had a litter of whelps a few weeks before, which were taken from her and drowned. The unfortunate mother was quite disconsolate till she perceived the brood of ducklings, which she immediately seized, and carried off to her lair, where she retained them, following them out and in with the greatest attention, and nursing them, after her own fashion, with the most affectionate anxiety. When the ducklings, following their natural instinct, went into the water, their foster-mother exhibited the utmost alarm, and as soon as they returned to land, she snatched them up in her mouth and ran home with them. What adds to the singularity of the circumstance is, that the same animal when deprived of a litter of puppies the following year, seized two cock chickens, which she reared with the like care she bestowed on her former family. When the young cocks began to try their voices, their foster-mother was as much annoyed as she formerly seemed to be by the swimming of the ducks, and never failed to repress their attempts at crowing.

The accompanying will illustrate the fidelity of these animals :

"Lennard Solikoffer, a Swiss nobleman, who, on the conclusion of the Swiss union, went to Paris as ambassador, had a large dog, which, on his departure, he ordered to be shut up for eight days. This was done, yet at the end of that period, the dog traced his way to the French capital, four hundred miles, and on the day of audience, rushed in all covered with mud, and leaped up mad for joy upon his master. In the family castle of Thuringia there is a painting of the story."

SPORTING IN FORMER DAYS.

THOSE fierce sportsmen, the Normans, were almost madly attached to the pursuit of the stag, as clearly appears by the fiendish cruelty of the statutory enactments of William the First, for the protection of these animals. But in bunting the stag they made use of the spear and the bow, as well as the dog: it is evident that much of the Norman mode of pursuit was retained in the days of Elizabeth. The Normans brought into the country the noble talbot, from which our varieties of the hound have been derived; and this dog was used for the purpose of rousing game, while the ambushed sportsmen discharged their arrows as it passed; if it were wounded, the dog pursued it; and such was the acuteness of its smell, that he was able to follow his game through every soil, every laby. rinth, and all its intricacies. If, however, the deer was only slightly hurt, the chase was long; it ended, in fact, with the close of the day; for as the talbot

was slow in pursuit, he could not, like the modern fox-hound, run up to his game, yet, from the extraordinary acuteness of his olfactory organs, he could always trace it unerringly, whatever distance it might be ahead. In 1124, Richard the First chased a hart from Sherwood Forest to Barnsdale in Yorkshire, and there lost him; he therefore made proclamation at Tunhill, and various other places in the neighbourhood of Barnsdale, that no person shall chase, kill, or hunt the same deer, in order that he might return to his lair in the forest of Sherwood. Thus, in early times, when hounds from exhaustion being unable to continue the chase, proclamation was made in all towns and villages near which it was supposed the hart might remain, that no person might hunt or kill him, so that he might safely return to his forest; and the foresters were ordered to harbour the said hart, and by degrees bring him back to the forest; and the deer was ever after a hart royal proclaimed.'

DOG PHYSIOGNOMISTS.

WHENEVER speaking to a dog, whether encouragingly or reprovingly, the sportsman should endeavour to look what he means, and the dog will understand him. The dog will understand the look if he does not the words. The sportsman should never with a smile on his countenance punish a dog; nor commend him when he has done well but with an apparent hearty goodwill; the dog will then take interest in obeying him. Gamekeepers and dog-breakers are often odd fellows, and seldom natives of the place where they follow their avocation. Many of them are