RAB AND HIS FRIENDS.

instantaneousness of that bud were very
funny and surprising, and its expressive
twinklings and winkings, the intercommu-
nications between the eye, the ear, and it
were of the oddest and swiftest.

Rab had the dignity and simplicity of
great size; and having fought his way all
along the road to absolute supremacy, he
was as mighty in his own line as Julius
Cesar or the Duke of Wellington, and had
the gravity’ of all great fighters.

You must have often observed the like-
ness of certain men to certain animals, and
of certain dogs to men. Now, I never
looked at Rab without thinking of the great
Baptist preacher, Andrew Fuller.2 The:

1 A Highland game-keeper when asked why a certain terrier
of singular pluck was so much more solemn than the other dogs,
said, ‘‘ Oh, sir, life’s full 0° sairiousness to him—he just never
can get enuff o’ fechtin’ ”

2 Fuller was in early life, when a farmer lad at Soham, famous
as a boxer ; not quarrelsome, but not without ‘the stern de-
light” a man of strength and courage feels in their exercise,
Dr. Charles Stewart, of Dunearn, whose rare gifts and graces

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