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see these dogs look at each other as they shook their coats. Their glauce 

 said as plainly as words, " We'll never quarrel any more." 



Another incident exhibits the intelligence of the Newfoundland. A 

 large, heavy wagon, which was, notwithstanding its enormous weigh-t, 

 dragged along at a smart trot by a vigorous horse, was passing lately 

 through the Rue de la Chapelle, at Paris. An infant of three years of 

 age having ventured on the public road, unconscious of the danger it 

 was running, was just about to be crushed beneath the wheels of the 

 huge vehicle. Quicker than thought, a magnificent Newfoundland dog, 

 which was sitting on the pavement, darted forth with one immense 

 bound, snapped up the little being, passed like an arrow beneath the 

 wagon between the four wheels, and deposited the poor child safe and 

 sound upon the opposite pavement. 



The second variety is the Large Labrador Dog, which is never 

 entirely black, and has a longer and more curly coat than the true New- 

 foundland. The third breed is the St. John's Dog, which seldom 

 exceeds twenty-five inches. 



It is a popular mistake to suppose that, to secure a good specimen 

 of these noble animals, it is necessary to send to the country fi'om which 

 they are named. In point of fact, the pure breed is almost extinct in 

 Newfoundland, and there are to be found there now in their stead a race 

 of mean-looking, shabby, cowardly, thievish mongrels, the degenerate 

 descendants of a once noble race, and as different from them as the 

 modern Greeks from the heroic Greeks of Homer. Neglect, ill-usage, 

 starvation, and hard work have wrought the change. Rather more than 

 two years ago an effort was made to introduce another breed, the cele- 

 brated Leonberg dog, the finest in the world — a development of, and a 

 decided improvement on, the original Newfoundland. The breeder of 

 this race is Count Esseg of Leonberg, Wurtemberg, and hitherto his 

 endeavors have been crowned with success. 



THE TERRIER. 



The Terrier, so named from the Latin terra " the earth," was origi- 

 nally used to drive foxes or vermin from drains or burrows in the ground. 

 He is a small, strong, and courageous dog, with a very good srent. As 

 a rule, all terriers have a strain of bulldog in them, to which they owe 

 their determination and endurance. In England, before the present style 



