MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 

 ON DOGS 



OGS do not like me, and I do not care for them ; 

 and the following notes about them would not 

 have been written but for the fact that the animals 

 mentioned exhibited not only uncommon intelligence, 

 but a thorough sportive disposition, and a peculiar 

 persistency in following up the bent of their genius. 



Lubbock, in his Observations on the Fauna of 

 Norfolk, mentions the curly -coated Retriever as 

 " the one species of dog very common here, though 

 not peculiar to the county the Yarmouth Water- 

 dog, as they are generally termed in other parts of 

 England." He then refers to a dog of this kind 

 kept at a drainage-mill on the Breydon marshes. 

 In winter this dog would go off by itself and search 

 the flint walls for wounded wildfowl: these, as is 

 well known, always endeavour to creep into some 

 nook or corner. When the wind blew from the 



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