ocession, and addressed himself to his
lordship as a poor unhappy man, whose misfortunes had turned his brain;
which the bishop hearing, gave him five shillings. From Wells he steered
to Bridgewater, but did not appear in the day-time, and went only in the
evenings upon his crutches, as a poor lame man, not being known by any
one till he discovered himself.

Having heard that young Lord Clifford, his first cousin, (who had just
returned from his travels abroad,) was at his seat at Callington, about
four miles from Bridgewater, he resolved to pay him a visit. In his way
thither resided Parson C---, who being one whom nature had made up in a
hurry without a heart, Mr. Carew had never been able to obtain any thing
of him, even under the most moving appearance of distress, but a cup of
small drink. Stopping now in his way, he found the parson was gone to
Lord Clifford's, but being saluted at the door by a fine black spaniel,
with almost as much crustiness as he would have been, had his master been
at home, he thought himself under no stronger obligation of observing the
strict laws of honour, than the parson did of hospitality; and therefore
soon charmed the crossness of the spaniel, and made him follow him to
Bridgewater; for it is very remarkable "that the art has been found of
taming the most savage and ill-natured brutes, which is generally
attended with success; but it requires a much higher skill, and is but
seldom successful, to soften the ill-nature and inhumanity of man:
whether it is that the brutes are more capable of receiving instruction,
or whether the ill-nature of man exceeds that of the brutes, we cannot
well determine."

Having secured the spaniel, and passed the night merrily in Bridgewater,
he set out the next morning for Lord Clifford's, and in his way called
upon the parson again, who very crustily told him he had lost his dog,
and supposed some of his gang had stolen him: to which Mr. Carew very
calmly replied, What was he to his dog, or what was his dog to him? if he
would make him drink it was well, for he was very dry: at last, with the
use of much rhetoric, he got a cup of small drink; then, taking leave of
him, he went to the Red Lion, in the same parish, where he staid some
time. In the mean time down ran the parson to my Lord Clifford's, to
acquaint him that Mr. Carew was in the parish, and to advise him to take
care of his dogs; so that Mr. Carew, coming down immediately after, found
a se