Thus discriminating was this fastidious Blenheim cocker even in the busy streets of Edinburgh.
And Scott's attraction for dumb animals was only a lesser form of his attraction for all who were in any way dependent on him, especially his own servants and labourers.

The story of his demeanour towards them is one of the most touching ever written.

"Sir Walter speaks to every man as if they were blood-relations" was the common _formula_ in which this demeanour was described.

Take this illustration.

There was a little hunchbacked tailor, named William Goodfellow, living on his property (but who at Abbotsford was termed Robin Goodfellow).