Two Pet Dogs.

Evening Post, Volume LV, Issue 137, 11 June 1898, Page 4 (Supplement)

Two Pet Dogs.

In tho Ladies' Kennel Journal for April are a number of stories concerning famous dogs. One relates to John Bright'a terrier. The statesman had a Scotch terrier, of which, looking at it curled up, he said, 'It was better off than most men, as it could always make bo.th ends meet. ' It was this dog, too, which no doubt suggested to Bright his phrase of the * Scotch Terrier Party' in the House of Commons, 'because you could never make out whioh was the head of it and which the tail.' Probably no dog, the Bamo article says, has ever rendered such signal military service, or been so honourably recognised, as the celebrated poodle Moustache, who shared the victorious fortunes of the French army through most of the wars of the Consulate aud of the French Empire. Ho won special honours at Marengo, and was decorated on the battlefield of Austerlitz by Marshal Launes as a reward for having rescued his regimental standard from an Austrian soldier when in the act of snatching it from the grasp of the standard-bearer, as he fell mortally wounded. The plucky poodle drove off the assailant, and then, seizing the tattered coloura in his teeth, dragged them triumphantly till he reached his own company.