DOGS IN BATTLE.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It may interest some of your readers if you would care to publish the following letter I have received from my son : "There were two dogs born in the — stables, Nigger and Jack, complete mongrels, who for some unaccountable reason attached themselves to my horses, and were never parted from them. On all marches, in camps and billets, they were always beside them. and followed them into battle. I lost sight of the dogs during tho fighting, but the burial parties found Nigger dead, with the men and horses who had been killed in our gallop. He had been shot through the chest. Jack could not be found. Five days later he found us in our bivouac, his nerves quite gone, but, although mentally upset, physically untouched. He has now quite recovered. How he managed to find us is a complete mystery; we were nowhere near whence we started, and he had to find us from among thousands of troops. I wonder also how and where he lived on the battlefield for five days."
—I am, Sir, &c., C.
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