DOGS. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



Learned Dog and Show -woman Education of Sporting Dogs 

 Hereditary Instinct of Dogs Their thievish propensities 

 descend to their offspring Bad-tempered Dogs Breaking 

 of Dogs Their jealousies Their Hunting alliances 

 Attachment of a Dog to his Master Dog-eating reprobated 

 Bloodhounds Skye Terriers Dogs combining against 

 a common enemy Old Dogs Singular instance of sagacity 

 in one. 



ALTHOUGH I am perfectly content with witnessing 

 the sagacity and instinct displayed by my own dogs 

 in their every-day employments and proceedings, 

 and am, generally speaking, unwilling to counte- 

 nance the trickery of what are called "learned 

 dogs," yet the other day, to please my children, I 

 allowed a woman, who sent up a most dirty-faced 

 card, announcing herself as the possessor of " THE 



MOST ASTONISHING LEARNED DOG EVER KNOWN," 



to exhibit the animal in our front hall. 



The woman herself was a small sharp-looking 

 personage, with the sodden and hard expression of 



