keep them in due fubjection to us, he has thought it good to deny to those animals the powers of reafon and speech, with which he has been pleased to blefs and diftinguifh mankind. For our service God has been pleased to create these useful animals large and ftrong, tame and tractable; they are much in our power, and committed by the Father of every living Creature to our care. But the power granted to men over brutes cannot be a power to abuse or opprefs them. It is our duty to confider that their services to us, and dependence upon us, give them a claim to our attention and tenderness: yet man, ungrateful man! deaf to the voice of justice, and hardened against the feelings of compaffion, abufes his power over these poor creatures, becaufe, for his fake, they are defencelefs and dumb, and have neither reason to convince him of his injustice, nor fpeech to utter their complaints. But though man be cruel, God is righteous and merciful. To check our pride, to prevent the abuse of our power, and curb our paffions, he graciously condefcends to reafon and fpeak for those who cannot reafon and speak for themselves; and has given particular laws for the direction of our conduct towards thofe brates which are more immediately within our power, and therefore most liable to fuffer by the abuse of it. LINES written by a LADY, on the Ratification of the Peace. N WOW the noise of war no more Peace waves her olive o'er each hoftile plain, No more we hear the loud alarms To diftant climes her gifts fhe'll pour, CURIOUS CURIOUS STORY of a SETTING BITCH. [From ESSAYS on HUNTING.] ALKING with a learned phyfician (a great connoiffeur in Tinting and fatting dog) upon the fubject of puppies, he told the following marvellous tale of a bitch he had of the fetting kind : "As he travelled from Midhurst into Hampshire, going through a country village, the maftiffs and cur dogs ran out barking, as is ufual when gentlemen ride by fuch places; among them he obferved a little ugly pedlar's cur particularly eager and fond of ingratiating himself with the bitch. The doctor ftopped to water upon the fpot, and, whilst his horfe drank, could not help remarking how amorous the cur continued, and how fond and courteous the bitch feemed to her admirer; but provoked in the end to see a creature of Phillis's rank and breed fo obfequious to fuch mean addreffes, drew one of his pistols and fhot the dog dead on the fpot; then alighted, and taking the bitch into his arms, carried her before him many miles.-The doctor relates farther, that madam, from that day, would eat little or nothing having, in a manner loft her appetite, the had little inclination to go abroad with her mafter, or come when he called; but feemed to repine like a creature in love, and express fenfible concern for the lofs of her gallant. "Partridge feafon came on, but she had no nofe; the doctor did not take the bird before her. However, in process of time Phillis waxed proud: the doctor was heartily glad of it, and phyfically apprehended it would be a means of weaning her from all thoughts of her deceafed admirer; accordingly, he had her confined in due time, and warded by an admirable fetter of high blood, which the doctor galloped his grey ftone-horse forty miles an end to fetch for the purpose; and, that no accident might happen from the careleffnefs of drunken, idle fervants, the charge was committed to a trusty old woman house keeper; and, as abfence from patients would permit, the doctor affidu oufly attended the affair himself. But lo! when the day of whelping came, Phillis did not produce one puppy but what was, in all refpects, the very picture and colour of the poor dog he had fhot fo many months before the bitch was in heat. "This affair not more furprized than enraged the doctor, For fometime he differed, almost to parting, with his old faithful houfe-keeper, being unjustly jealous of her care. Such be haviour before he never knew from him; but, alas! what remedy? VOL. I. 8. 2 A 1 "He kept the bitch many years, yet, to his infinite concern, the never brought a litter but exactly fimilar to the pedlar's cur. He difpofed of her to a friend in a neighbouring county, but to no purpose, the vixen ftill brought fuch puppies. Whence the doctor tenacioufly maintained, bitch and dog may fall paffionately in love with each other." That fuch creatures, efpecially the female, may at particular times, like or prefer, I grant the doctor; but how the impreffion of the dog, (admitting to favour him there was any) could oc cafion fimilitude in the iffue of the bitch, and for a continuance of years after the dog's death, nobody but the doctor is capable of defending, who to this day relates and juftifies the truth of every circumftance I have mentioned. Aufwer, by P. Steel, of Dorchester, to J. S.'s Rebus, inserted January 13. T1 HE burning well you mean is near The town of WIGAN, Lancashire. fit We have received the like anfwer from M. Rowfe, of Withecombe; and Agathos Pais, of Taunton. IF A QUESTION, by J. Whitcombe, of Plymouth. F a cafk in form of a cone's fruftum be placed in fuch a manner that when the liquor just covers the higheft extremity of the greater diameter it rofe to the top of the inclined fide, required the quantity of liquor in the cafk in wine measure, the difference of its top and bottom diameter being zo inches, its height go inches, and its content, when full, 282,569 wine gal lons. A QUESTION, by William Smith, Black-fmith, of Knacker's hole, near Plymouth. A Maltfter propofes to have a circular ciftern made of lead that will contain 7 quarters of grain. The thickness of the lead is to be three-tenths of an inch. He defires to know the weight of the cistern, and the depth and diameter when they are fuch that the cistern will take the leaft lead poffible. tst The The foregoing is the 232d queftion in Mr. Martin's Magazine for the year 1759, and propofed by Mr. W. Chapton, of Hoxton, and anfwered in the fucceeding magazines, as Mr. Martin fays, by 14 different gentlemen, and only two of that number agree in the weight of the cistern, which they make 11 C. 3 qrs. 9lb. The propofer makes it 25 C. 3 qrs. 7 lb. Should be glad to know if either of thefe is the jult weight of the ciftern; if fo, I hope to fee it pointed out by a fluxionary procefs, as there is no anfwer at large in any of Mr. Martin's magazines that I have ever had the pleasure of feeing. A W. SMITH. A QUESTION, by Agathos Pais, of Taunton. fhe fuckled them all herfelf, after the rate, as the fuppofes, of three pints of milk per day for the first three months, and two pints and an half afterwards. She defires me to calculate the whole quantity from the following account:-The first child was born on St. Prifcus's day, 1768, and weaned on St. Lucian's day, 1769. The fecond was born on St. Agnes, 1769, and weaned on St. Fabian, 1770. The third was born on St. Agatha, 1770, and weaned on St. Blafius, 1771. The fourth was born on St. Perpetua, 1771, and weaned on St. Chad, 1772. The fifth was born on St. Margaret, 1772, and weaned on St. Alban, 1773. The fixth was born on St. Mary Magdalen, 1773, and weaned on St. Swithin, 1774. The feventh was born on St. Anne, 1774, and weaned on St. Lawrence, 1775. The eighth was born on St. Faith, 1775, and weaned on St. Remigius, 1776. The ninth was born on St. Ethelreda, 1776, and weaned on St. Dennis, 1777. The tenth was born on St. Cecilia, 1777, and weaned on St. Leonard, 1778. The eleventh was born on St. Catharine, 1778, and weaned on St. Britius, 1779. The twelfth was born on St. Lucy, 1779, and weaned on St. Silvefter, 1782. It looks from these calendered faints as though the lady was a devotee of the church of Rome; but, if fo, I am willing to oblige her, because her eldett daughter, who is about my age, propofes to teach me French, if I will teach her Greek.Quere. Will any brother fcribbler calculate the quantity of milk, and from thence tell how many hogfheads of good ale this lady drank during the time of her motherly nourishing her children, reckoning a pint and an half, of beer measure, to produce one pint of milk, wine measure? 2 A 2 To the PRINTER of the WEEKLY ENTERTAINER. SIR, B EING employed to take an alphabetical lift of the parishes in Somerset, I had recourse to the new map; but the egregious blunders in fpelling of names induced me examine Strachey's old map, the errors of which I found were preserved in the new To remedy this one, through the inattention of the furveyor. evil, I confulted the Biographia Britannica, and the Compleat Hiftory of Somerfet, printed at Sherborne in the year 1742 ; but not receiving fatisfaction, I was furnished with Ecton's Thefaurus*, which I foon found partook of the common error, and was thereupon recommended to the Nomina Villarum in Goddard's Seffion Rolls, as the ftandard from which we can make no appeal. However I am not fatisfied with either of these authorities, and have therefore sent you a lift of a few parishes in Somerset, which I humbly apprehend are according to the true fpelling. Your inferting them in a new drefs is a novelty that will please many of your readers, and particularly oblige Your conftant Correfpondent, AGATHOS PAIS. 1. Three-fevenths of an idle loose woman, the moiety of a male hog, and Chesterfield's foft term for the rude. 2. Three fourths of a disappointment, a kitchen utenfil omitting a letter, and a name given to a corporation town. 3. A carpenter's tool two-thirds of a hard English wood, and five-fixths of a small ciftern. 4. Two-fixths of an hieroglyphical device, two-fifths of a blockhead, three-fourths of the traverfe of an army, and twofifths of an immaterial being. 5. A plant frequent on hilly barren ground, a moiety of the north wind, and four-fifths of branch of a tree. 6. The wood of a fmall nut tree, three-fourths of a gun's cavity, and four-fixths of a particle. 7. The moiety of a term to disjoint, three-fifths of a mineral falt, and four-fixths of the chief implement of hufbandry. * Ecton, in quarto, now fells for two guineas. Quere. Will any gentleman find paper and printing if a perfon of leifure can be found to give the public a better edition in octavo for five fhillings? An |