"The interesting little dog now under consideration is a favourite in most countries; and has occasionally been much caressed by royalty itself. The chief order of Denmark, now called the order of the Elephant, was instituted in memory of a spaniel called Wildbrat, which had showed attachment to the monarch when deserted by his subjects. The motto to the order is. 'Wildbrat was faithful.9

" Charles II. was generally accompanied to the council by a favourite spaniel, and a particular strain of the spaniel breed is still distinguished by the name of this monarch. His successor. James II., manifested a similar attachment; and it is reported of him by Bishop Burnet, that being once in danger from a storm at sea, and obliged to quit the ship to save his life, he vociferated most impatiently - 'Save the dogs and Colonel Churchill!'

"There is a circumstance noticed in early English history, which seems to prove that one of the landings of the Danes in England was occasioned by the sagacity and affection of a spaniel. Lodebrock, of the blood royal of Denma?k, and father of Humbar and Hubba, being in a boat with his hawks and his dog, was unexpectedly driven on the coast of Norfolk by a storm, where, being discovered and suspected as a spy, he was brought to Edmund, at that time king of the East Angles. He made himself known to Edmund, who treated him with kindness, and with whom he soon became a great favourite, particularly on account of his skill and dexterity in the chase. The king's falconer became jealous of this attention, waylaid Lodebrock, murdered him, and concealed the body among some bushes. He was very soon missed at court, and the king manifested great impatience to know what was become of him; when his dog, who had stayed in the wood by the corpse of his master till famine forced him thence, came and fawned on the king, and enticed him to follow him. The body was found, and the murderer ultimately discovered. As a punishment for so atrocious a crime, he was placed alone in Lode-brock's boat, and committed to the mercy of the sea, which, it seems, bore him to the shore which Lodebrock had quitted. The boat was recognised, and the assassin, to avoid the punishment which awaited him, said that Lodebrock had been put to death by order of Edmund; which exasperated the Danes so much, that they determined on the invasion of England.

"The gamekeeper of the Rev. Mr. Corsellis was constantly attended by a spaniel, which he had reared; and the faithful animal would leave him neither night nor day. Wherever old Daniel appeared, Dash was to be seen; and the dog was of great service to his master in his nocturnal perambulations. The game, at that season, the dog did not regard in the least, though no spaniel was more active in this respect in the daytime. But at night, if a strange foot had entered any of the covers, Dash, by a significant whine, informed his master of the circumstance; and many poachers were captured in consequence of this singular intelligence. After some years, old Daniel was seized with a disease which produced a consumption, and ended in death. During the progress of this fatal disorder, while old Daniel was able to crawl about, Dash regularly attended him; and when at length the old man was confined to his bed, the dog took his station at the foot of it. When death relieved the old man from his sufferings, the dog refused to quit the body, but lay upon the bed by the side of it. For some time the animal would take no food; and, although after the burial, he was taken to the hall and caressed as much as possible, yet he took every opportunity of creeping back to the room in the cottage where his old master breathed his last, where he would continue for hours; from thence he daily visited the grave, and, at the end of fourteen days, the animal died, having absolutely pined away.