Volume I Part 103 (1/2)

_Eurytion's Dog_ (herdsman of Geryon), ”Orthros.” It had two heads.

_Fingal's Dog_ was named ”Bran.”

_Geryon's Dogs_. One was ”Gargittos” and the other ”Orthros.” The latter was brother of Cerberos, but it had only two heads. Hercules killed both of Geryon's dogs.

_Landseer's Dog_, ”Brutus,” introduced by the great animal painter in his picture called ”The Invader of the Larder.”

_Llewellyn's Dog_ was named ”Gelert;” it was a greyhound. (See GELERT).

_Lord Lurgan's Dog_ was named, ”Master M'Grath,” from an orphan boy who reared it. This dog won three Waterloo cups, and was presented at court by the express desire of Queen Victoria, the very year it died.

It was a sporting grey-hound (born 1866, died Christmas Day, 1871).

_Maria's Dog_, ”Silvio.”--Sterne, _Sentimental Journey._

_Dog of Montargis_. This was a dog named ”Dragon,” belonging to Aubri de Montdidier, a captain in the French army. Aubri was murdered in the forest of Bondy by his friend, Lieutenant Macaire, in the same regiment. After its master's death the dog showed such a strange aversion to Macaire, that suspicion was aroused against him. Some say he was pitted against the dog, and confessed the crime. Others say a sash was found on him, and the sword knot was recognized by Ursula as her own work and gift to Aubri. This Macaire then confessed the crime, and his accomplice, Lieutenant Landry, trying to escape, was seized by the dog and bitten to death. This story has been dramatized both in French and English.

_Orion's Dogs_; one was named ”Arctoph'onos” and the other ”Pto-ophagos.”

_Punch's Dog_, ”Toby.”

_Sir W. Scott's Dogs_. His deer-hound was ”Maida.” His jet-black greyhound was ”Hamlet.” He had also two Dandy Dinmont terriers.

_Dog of the seven Sleepers_, ”Katmir.” It spoke with a human voice.

In _Sleary's circus_, the performing dog is called ”Merryleys.”--C.

d.i.c.kens, _Hard Times._

(For Actaeon's fifty dogs, see _Dictionary of Phrase and Fable_, 234).

_Dog_. The famous _Mount St. Bernard_ dog which saved forty human beings, was named ”Barry.” The stuffed skin of this n.o.ble creature is preserved in the museum at Berne.

_Dog (The)_, Diogenes the cynic (B.C. 412-323). When Alexander encountered him, the young Macedonian king introduced himself with the words, ”I am Alexander, surnamed 'the Great.'” To which the philosopher replied, ”And I am Diogenes, surnamed 'the Dog.'” The Athenians raised to his memory a pillar of Parian marble, surmounted with a dog, and bearing the following inscription:--

”Say, dog, what guard you in that tomb?”

A dog. ”His name?” Diogenes. ”From far?”

Sinope, ”He who made a tub his home?”

The same; now dead, among the stars a star.

_Dog (The Thracian)_, Zo'ilus the grammarian; so called for his snarling, captious criticisms on Homer, Plato, and Isocrates. He was contemporary with Philip of Macedon.

_Dogs_. The two sisters of Zobei'de (3 _syl_.) were turned into little black dogs for casting Zobeide and ”the prince” into the sea (See ZOBEIDE).

DOGS OF WAR, Famine, Sword, and Fire:

Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, a.s.sume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leashed in like hounds, should Famine, Sword, and Fire Crouch for employment.

Shakespeare, _King Henry V_. I chorus (1599).

DOG-HEADED TRIBES (of India), mentioned in the Italian romance of _Gueri'no Meschi'no._

DOGBERRY AND VERGES, two ignorant conceited constables, who greatly mutilate their words. Dogberry calls ”a.s.sembly” _dissembly_; ”treason”