Curiosities of civilization : reprinted from the "Quarterly" & "Edinburgh" reviews / by Andrew Wynter.
- Andrew Wynter
- Date:
- [between 1860 and 1869?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Curiosities of civilization : reprinted from the "Quarterly" & "Edinburgh" reviews / by Andrew Wynter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Italic type, tlie diction of which, from its pleasant raillery, looks as though it had come from the king's own hand :— We must call upon you again for a Blach Dog, hetvmn a Grey hound and a Spaniel, no white ahont. him, onely a streak on his Brest, and Tayl a little bobbed. It is His Majesties own Dog, and doubtless loas stoln, for the Dog was not bom nor bred in England', and would never forsalcehis Master. Whosoever- fndes him may acquaint any at Whilehal, for the Dog was better hnown at Court than those wlio stole him. Will they never leave robbing His Majesty? must he not keep a Dog? This Dogs place {though better than some imagine) is the only place which nobody offers to beg. Pepys, ahout this time, desci'ibes the king with a train of spaniels and other dogs at his heels, lounging along and feeding the ducks in St. James's Park; and on occasions still later he was often seen talking to Nelly, as she leaned from her garden- wall that abutted upon the Pall-Mall, whilst his canine favourites grouped around him. On these occasions perhaps the representatives of those gentlemen to be seen in Pegent- street, with two bundles of animated wool beneath their arms, were on the look-out, as we find his m^esty continually adver- tising his lost dogs. Later we find him inquiring after a little brindled greyhound bitch, having her two hinder feet white for a white-haired spaniel, smooth-coated, with large red or yellowish spots, and for a black mastiff dog, with cropped ears and cut tail. And when royalty had done, his Higlmess Prince Pupert, or Buckingham, or my Lord Albemarle, i-esorted to the London Gazette to make known their canine losses. We think the change in the temper of the age is more clearly marked by these dog advertisements than by anything else. The Puritans did not like sporting animals of any kind, and we much question whether a dog would have followed a fifth- monarchy-man. Hence the total absence of all advertisements beai-ing upon the fancy. Now that the king had returned, the old English love of field-sports s])read with fourfold vigour. We chance upon the traces too of a courtly amusement which had been handed down from the middle ages, and was then only lingering amongst us—hawking. Here is an inquiry after a lost lanner :—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20401309_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
