THE DOG. 



the field, and the beauty and symmetry of his 

 form. Since his first production, he has been 

 improved by being recrossed with the harrier. 

 He varies a good deal in his size and colour. 

 When well trained, and of a pure breed, he is ex- 

 ceedingly staunch instances having been known 

 where he has remained above an hour in the act 

 of pointing. 



The Dalmatian is a handsome animal, beauti- 

 fully spotted black on a white skin. In his native 

 country he is employed as a pointer; but im- 

 ported into England, he has there lost all 

 qualities for sporting, and is kept merely as an 

 attendant on carriages hence the common term 

 4 coach-dog.' 



Section 7. Hounds which hunt in packs by the scent 



The English Terrier is too well known to 

 require any description. He has great courage, 

 and is famous for killing all kinds of vermin, and 

 at one time formed a useful attendant upon a pack 

 of foxhounds, for getting into the earth when the 

 fox had taken to his hole, and driving him out. 

 His hair is smooth ; his general colour is black, 

 with tanned cheeks, and the insides of his legs are 

 of the same colour. 



The Scotch Terrier has short wiry hair, very 

 rough, and is much shorter in the legs than the 

 English terrier. His usual colour is sandy, but 

 he is to be found black, and also gray. He bites 

 with great keenness, and is a bold and determined 

 dog. He will attack dogs of any size ; and when 

 he fixes on an animal, he maintains his hold 

 with great pertinacity. He is an excellent killer 

 of vermin. The Skyc terriers, or terriers of the 

 Western Isles, are longer in the body, lower in 

 the legs, and decidedly rougher and shaggier than 

 those of the Lowlands ; indeed, they form alto- 

 gether a distinct variety. 



The Bloodhound is a powerful and sagacious 

 animal, generally of a dark colour, with brown 

 markings, and is endowed with a keen scent. 

 On being led to the footsteps of any animal or 

 man, he will follow them up with unerring pre- 

 cision. This has led to the breed being employed 

 for tracking criminals, or the unhappy victims of 

 oppression. By the Spaniards, a breed was taken 

 to Cuba to track the natives, and this race of 

 animals still exists in that island. A company of 

 them, with their attendants, were imported from 

 Cuba into Jamaica, to assist in putting down the 

 refractory Maroons. 



The Staghound \s the largest of all the British 

 dogs of the chase ; he has a noble and dignified 

 aspect, and great sagacity and endurance in the 

 chase : this dog is also supposed to be a direct 

 descendant of one of our original British dogs. 



The Foxhound has a much larger muzzle than 

 the staghound, and his head is small in proportion 

 to the size of his body ; his ears are very long 

 and pendulous, although less so than those of the 

 staghound and bloodhound. 



The Harrier is used in hare-hunting, and was 

 originally obtained by a double cross between the 

 small beagle and southern hound. He is very 

 eager in the pursuit of the hare. There are few 

 instances of any of the deer tribe being hunted 

 with success by dogs so small as harriers. 



The Beagle is the smallest of the dogs of the 

 chase. He has a very acute sense of smelling, 

 and pursues the hare with unwearied steadiness ; 



and what he wants in speed and strength, he 

 makes up for by his perseverance. 



III. WITH SHOBT HEADS. 

 Section 8. Watch-dogs, which have no propensity for hunting. 



The Mastiff has a large flat head, and a short 

 and blunted muzzle ; his lips are full, and hang- 

 ing considerably over the lower jaw; his ears, 

 although rather small, are pendulous. He has a 

 sullen and grave aspect, and is excellent as a 

 watch-dog ; his voice is loud and deep-toned 

 Like the dog next mentioned, he is ferocious in 

 disposition, and of little use when off the chain. 



The Bull-dog is remarkable for the depth of his 

 chest and the strength of the whole muscles of 

 his body. His head is large, flattened above, and 

 his muzzle much blunted, with the under jaw 

 projecting considerably beyond the upper. He 

 is the boldest and most obstinate of all dogs, 

 and has been known to hold his adversary so 

 determinedly that his legs have been cut off 

 without making him desist. 



Many instances have been recorded of the 

 invincible courage of the English bull-dog, but 

 we scarcely recollect one in which so much un- 

 conquerable spirit and tenacity of life have ever 

 been displayed as on the following occasion. 

 Some years ago, a large dog of this species, from 

 some cause that was not observed, suddenly flew 

 at a fine cart-horse that was standing at the end 

 of the Salthouse Dock, Liverpool, and fixing his 

 lacerating teeth in his shoulder, defied every effort 

 to get him off. At first he was beaten with cart- 

 whips and sticks, with much fury ; but this being 

 unavailing, a carpenter with an adze in his hand 

 came up and beat him with the blunt iron head 

 of the instrument, but the dog never moved a 

 tooth. A man then took out a large pointed 

 clasp-knife, with which he stabbed him repeatedly 

 in the back, loins, and ribs, but with no better 

 success. At length one of the spectators, who 

 appeared to have more strength of sinew and arm 

 than the rest, squeezed the ferocious beast so 

 tightly about the throat that at length he turned 

 up the white of his eyes and relaxed his jaws. 

 The man threw him off to a distance ; but the 

 dog immediately went round the crowd, got behind 

 the horse, and again seized him by the under part 

 of the thigh. As no terms could now be kept 

 with this untamable brute, he was again loosened, 

 and thrown into the dock to drown. He instantly, 

 however, rose to the surface, when a sailor struck 

 him a supposed deadly blow on the head with a 

 handspike, which again sent him to the bottom. 

 He arose once more, and was again sent down in 

 the same manner, and this process was repeated 

 five or six times. At length one of the by-standcrs, 

 who either possessed or assumed some right of 

 property in the dog, overcome by his amazing 

 tenacity of life, and weary of persecution, got him 

 out, and walked off with this prodigy of English 

 courage, to all appearance very little the worse 

 for the horrible punishment he had undergone. 

 Since the very proper disuse of bull-baiting, this 

 ferocious variety of the dog has fortunately 

 diminished in number. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



As formerly mentioned, dogs are very suscept- 

 ible of education. To make a dog behave properly, 



