44 NEIGHBORS WITH CLAWS AND HOOFS. 



this tendency to stand over game is an inheritance which 

 is supposed to have descended from the time of the ancient 

 Phoenicians, and is so confirmed that the puppy will take 

 to pointing without any further training than what is neces- 

 sary to subdue the excess of its spirits. 



13. In the frigid regions of Asia, Europe, and America, 

 where the sunbeams are too feeble to contend with nightly 

 frost and deep snow, there the dog and the reindeer per- 

 form the duties of the horse. The Arctic horse of Amer- 

 ica is the Esquimau dog. " In this desolate region dogs 

 render invaluable service, not only by drawing sledges, 

 thus transferring persons from place to place, otherwise 

 inaccessible, but enabling them to convey to their dwell- 



