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an instant, and a bite from one of these dogs is a serious matter and 

 leaves a nasty wound. The writer has at various times owned 

 several of these dogs and has never been bitten by one ; but those 

 who have been injudicious enough to ignore the notice exhibited 

 at most shows cautioning visitors against touching any of the dogs, 

 and have interfered with a Dingo, have not always been so fortunate, 

 and have had good cause to regret their folly. 



Of the Dingos that have been exhibited, Captain Burton (13,315) 

 a frequent winner about sixteen years since, was unquestionably one 

 of the best. Like many wild animals in confinement, this dog would 

 continue to walk round in a circle for hours together; it was for this 



FIG. 82. MR. H. BROOKE'S DINGO MYALL. 



reason that he was exhibited loose in an iron cage, as if chained 

 up the chain soon became twisted. In later years Myall (41,736) 

 (Fig. 82) has successfully represented the breed on the show-bench. 

 Previous to either of these dogs Lupus was a frequent winner under 

 different judges. The high carriage of tail was a fault in this dog 

 apparent to any one ; in addition to this the writer, who owned Lupus 

 for some years, always considered that there was something about 

 the dog not altogether characteristic of the breed, although it would 

 have been very difficult to define exactly what this was. He had no 

 suspicion at the time that the dog, although bred in this country, 

 was not a pure-bred Dingo, as was represented to be the case when 



