20 APRIL 1934, Page 6

The Prince of Wales, who last week lost and found

his dog, or had it found for him, was, whether he knew it or not, fulfilling the tradition of a hereditary monarchy, for Chatles II seems to have been losing dogs' with dis- turbing frequency. He was always appealing to his loyal subjects 'to bring a missing animal back. One of them was " a Black dog between a greyhound and a spaniel (how familiar the hybrid, and how hard we try to dignify it), no white about him, onely a streak on his brest, 'and his tayl a little bobbed." A distressing affair, for no recovery of the greyhound-spaniel was ever