DOGS 



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in various ways, while some kinds merely gratify 

 his fancy. 



Of the useful dogs we have the various kinds 

 with good " noses/' which are trained for hunting 

 and other sports, such as the pointer, the fox-hound, 

 the deer-hound, the fox terrier, and the retrievers; 



Fig. 11. 



Jack," an old Wire-haired Terrier. 

 (Photo, from life.) 



dogs trained for services of various kinds, as the 

 turn-spit, which dogs were, in fact, formerly used 

 to turn the great spit which roasted the meat, by 

 treading on a wheel much in the same way as the 

 donkey turns the water-wheel at Carisbrooke Castle 

 in the Isle of Wight ; the bloodhound, which will 

 follow the scent of man ; the St. Bernard dogs, by 



