Identifier: newbookofdogcomp01leig (find matches)
Title: The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Leighton, Robert, 1859-1934
Subjects: Dogs
Publisher: London New York : Cassell
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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tiesand its patron saints. St. Eustace is thepatron of dogs in the South of Europe. Inthe North it is St. Hubert, who presidesover the chase and the destinies of dogs.He is said to have been so inordinately fondof the chase that he neglected his religiousduties for his favourite amusement ; tillone Good Friday, when hunting in the forestwith his famous hounds of the breed whichhas since borne his name, he was confronted THE DOG IN HISTORY, ART, AND LITERATURE. 17 by a stag bearing a crucifix between itsantlers, threatening him with eternal per-dition unless he reformed. Upon this heentered the cloister and became in timeBishop of Liege and the apostle of Ardennesand Brabant. He died at an advancedage, a.d. 727. thread from his miraculous stole is moreefficacious in cases of hydrophobia thanall the prophylactics of Pasteur. The St.Hubert hounds were mighty of body, withlegs somewhat low and short—Bloodhoundsrather than Greyhounds. It is to be doubtedwhether one of this famous race of
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THE VISION OF ST. HUBERT. The festival of St. Hubert is still held onNovember 2nd, and on that day crowds ofpilgrims assemble at his shrine to invoke ablessing on themselves and on their dogs.At the church of Lime, where some relics ofthe saint are preserved, the following rhyme—half charm, half prayer—is recited : Saint Hubert glorieux,Dieu me soil amoureuxTrois chases me defend ;De la nuit du serpent.Mauvais loup, mauvais chien,Mauvais betes enragcesNe puissent mapprocher,Me voir, ne me toucher,Non plus quctoile an del, and it is believed that his blessing or a St. Huberts breed,Unmatched for courage, breath, andspeed, could now be anywhere discovered. Much might be written of the famous dogsof history—of the Mastiffs of the Knightsof Rhodes, who could distinguish a Turkfrom a Christian by the smell of him ; ofthe Spanish Bloodhounds, who helped inthe conquest of Mexico and Peru ; of Mathe,the favourite of Richard II., who, asFroissart asserts, deserted his master tofawn upon

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