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more company than you will like. The Scotch terriers 

 are rough, scraggy, affectionate, but so nervous, frisky, and 

 mischievous that they are only to be recommended as out- 

 door pets in barn and stable. They are capital rat-catchers, 

 very amicable with horses, and will sit up by the driver or 

 a coach-boy with an air of great sagacity. 



There is something very curious about the habits and 

 instincts of certain dogs which have been trained by man 

 for his own purposes. In the mountains of Scotland, there 

 are a tribe of dogs called Shepherd-dogs, which for gener- 

 ations and ages have helped the shepherds to take care of 

 their sheep, and which look for all the world like long- 

 nosed, high-cheek-boned, careful old Scotchmen. You will 

 see them in the morning, trotting out their flock of sheep 

 walking about with a grave, care-taking air, and at evening 

 all bustle and importance, hurrying and scurrying hither 

 and thither, getting their charge all together for the night. 

 An old Scotchman tells us that his dog Hector, by long 

 sharing his toils and cares, got to looking so much like 

 him, that once, when he felt too sleepy to go to meeting 

 he sent Hector to take his seat in the pew, and the min- 

 ister never knew the difference, but complimented him the 

 next day for his good attention to the sermon. 



There is a kind of dog employed by the monks of St. 

 Bernard, in the Alps, to go out and seek in the snow foi 

 travellers who may have lost their way ; and this habit 



