bler, that they had given him a glass with a hole in the bottom of it."

Little did poor Paddy know how closely his simile applied.

The dog at length became almost rabid for want of water, and the colonel grew suspicious. He accused Delany, his servant, of having appropriated the animal's allowance; but the latter, than whom there was not an honester or more humane fellow in the world, stoutly denied the charge, and alledged, as an incontrovertible proof of his innocence, “that he had a mortial dislike to cowld wather;" a fact of which the colonel appeared to have a distinct recollection, from the air of conviction with which he heard his defence. Puzzled, but not satisfied, that the dog had been fairly dealt with, he resolved to see the water given to him himself, and to wait while he was drinking it.

Repairing to the kennel, followed by Paddy,

carrying a large bucket of water, the colonel directed him to fill the trough, and to let the dog drink. Neptune absorbed the contents of the vessel in a shorter given space of time than ever dog or horse had done before him. The animal looked still unsatisfied--the colonel puzzled, and Paddy exulting.

"Fill it again," said the colonel,

poor fellow is dying of thirst."

"the

"Sorra a use in it, your honour, he's got a stomach like a sucking pump, an' there's no sich thing as satisfyin' him."

"Do what I tell you-now! that will do." "There again, sir, you see its jist as I Its gone before you could cry

towld you.

Jack Robinson."

“What can be the matter with the dog," said the colonel, quite concerned: "here Nep, my fine fellow-come here, sir.”

"He won't lave the trough, your honour, you see he wants more water."

"Oh! that's nonsense, he has had sufficient

already to satisfy a pack of hounds. There must be something wrong with the dog, Delany, for this insatiable thirst is not natural. You had better take him to the doctor at once, and get him examined."

"That's my own private opinion too, sir, for it isn't right for either baste or christian to to dhrink in that way."

Neptune was accordingly taken to the doctor, and the facts having been stated to him, he shook his head incredulously at the account given of his perforn.ance by Delany. He examined the animal carefully, and declared he was free from everything like disease, but could give no explanation of the phenomenon which had been related to him. There must be a period to thirst, he said, as well as to hunger; and it was impossible that dog or human being could contain more than a certain quantity of liquid. The only advice he had to give was, that the animal should be kept under the colonel's immediate eye, and that

his food and drink be given to him in his presence.'

For once, and by accident, the doctor arrived at the real state of the case, and Neptune having been removed to the colonel's cabin,

speedily got rid of his inordinate appetite for "dhrink."

CHAPTER II.

Ah, me! that the visions of youth,
Like rainbows all melt and decay,

That the vows and the pledges of truth
Should be things that can bind but a day.

LATE one night we were roused from our sleep by a sudden shock, that made the vessel reel, and led us to anticipate some terrible disaster. On rushing to the deck, I found it crowded with anxious faces, and amidst the general confusion of voices the captain's was predominant.

"What the d-1 induced you to let

go the wheel, you scoundrel," he exclaimed as seizing