CHAPTER II.

 HIGH LIFE."

 SIR EDWIN LANDSEER intended to produce a broad
 contrast when he painted two dogs, and ticketed them
respectively Low Life" and High Life." I need hardly
say he succeeded in his attempt. Never were dog nature and
dog surroundings more widely opposed than those which are
to be found in the two pictures.
 I have already described Prince's appearance, and sketched
his history, while I have left my readers to study for them-
selves the copy which the painter has supplied of the dog's
primitive abode. But I must turn back and call attention to
it at this point, in order to mark the gulf between it and
Carlo's home. First, look at Prince's lodging, with its rude
block for a table, the red-handled knife on the block, the
pewter pot which has contained his master's beer and still
holds his pipe standing behind the dog, and, lying at his feet,
a well-polished bone.
 Next, contemplate Carlo sitting in an elegant, pensive
attitude in his master's study; was there ever a deeper gulf
alike between dogs and their quarters ?