CASABIANCA SUPERSEDED.
pre THE EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOR:1 Sca,—Yon appreciate good dogs. Let me introduce you to one, a bull-terrier, ugly, staunch, perfect in temper, trained by a poacher to irreproachable conduct, On Tuesday, July 5th, while journeying to the country with this dog and my children, in hurriedly changing trains at the crowded Waverley Station, Edinburgh, 'Charlie' was lost sight of, and we were compelled, disconsolate, bereaved, and still shouting his name, to go on to Berwick without him. Telegrams, appeals to guards and station-masters, advertisements, scrutiny of the kennels at the Home for Lost Dogs, produced no results in the shape of 4 Charlie.' Last Saturday, having occasion to return to Glasgow. I again appealed to the station-master in Edinburgh, who was courteous but discouraging. Sadly returning to my carriage, my gloom was suddenly turned into frantic joy by seeing ' Charlie ' standing dejectedly beside a pillar. His excitement on finding me, and the barking and leaping he indulged in, were the last efforts of exhausted nature ; and he slept almost con- tinuously for sixty hours. Where was he from Tuesday to Saturday ? I have asked him, bat he merely looks pathetically
in my face, as if I ought to know.—I am, Sir, itc., K. D.
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