HO THOSE OTHER ANIMALS. 



others whose chief object of life seems to be to pick a 

 quarrel and then fight it out. But these differences are no 

 greater than those we find existing in men even in men of 

 the same race. It does not require a very wide range of 

 acquaintance to enable us to fix upon a man whose tastes 

 correspond respectively to those of one or other of these 

 types of dogs, and, indeed, the list might be almost 

 indefinitely extended. This is not remarkable, since it is 

 man who has made the dog what he is. No such varieties 

 of character are to be found in the wild dog, and even the 

 semi-civilised dog of Constantinople, or other Eastern towns, 

 resembles his brethren as closely as one sheep in the fold 

 does another. 



The Red Indian expects confidently that his faithful 

 hound will be his companion in the chase in the country of 

 the Great Manitou, and there are not a few Englishmen 

 who, deep down in their hearts, believe that the separation 

 between themselves and their affectionate friends and loyal 

 servants will not be an eternal one. They would repudiate 

 the idea that there was a future before other animals, 

 uniess an exception were made in behalf of a favourite 

 horse ; but the dog has assimilated himself so closely to 

 man, has become so much his companion and friend, that 

 it is not difficult to a real lover of the dog to suppose that 

 it too may have a future before it. At any rate, in a 

 comparison between the dog and the man, the advantage 

 is not always with the latter; and few would deny that 

 in point of intelligence, of generosity, and nobleness of 

 disposition, of fidelity to duty, of patience and of courage, 

 there are some dogs that are infinitely the superiors of 

 some men. It was not so long ago that, in discussing the 



