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the sandy and parching deserts in which he so often ranges, to dis- 

 cover the vicinity of water at the distance of a mile."* - 



The keen scent of the Dog in detecting and tracking 

 various kinds of game, and also in following his master's 

 footsteps, even in the midst of a public thoroughfare, is 

 familiar to all. There is reason to believe, moreover, that 

 the Dog habitually puts its sense of Smell to uses that we 

 can only faintly realize. A good instance of this sort is 

 cited by Dr. Huggins,t who possesses a son of a celebrated 

 English Mastiff, named Turk, and in whom he speedily 

 discovered a strange antipathy to all butchers, and dislike 

 of butchers' shops. On making enquiry of the original 

 owner of Turk, Dr. Huggins found that a similar anti- 

 pathy existed in the father, and in the grandfather of his 

 dog, as well as in other sons of Turk, by different mothers. 

 Concerning one of these latter dogs, named Paris, this 

 gentleman communicated some most interesting facts. 



He says, " Paris has the greatest antipathy, as he would 

 hardly go into a street where a butcher's shop is, and would run 

 away alter passing it. When a cart with a butcher's man came 

 into the place where the dogs were kept, although they could not 

 see him, they all were ready to break their chains. A master- 

 butcher, dressed privately, called one evening on Paris's master to 

 see the dog. He had hardly entered the house before the dog 

 (though shut in) was so much excited that he had to be put into 

 a shed, and the butcher was forced to leave without seeing the dog. 



* R. C. Norman writes, " That frogs are enabled to know when 

 water is near, and that they are instinctively attracted towards it 

 I have had abundant means of certifying in localities where there 

 was a pond on the other side of a paling or a wall. I have 

 found frogs, during the spawning season, in numbers, close against 

 the impeding fence, with their heads towards it; and when I threw 

 them over, they immediately proceeded in the direction of the 

 water." WHITE'S " Natural History of Selborne " (Bonn's edition), 

 p. 407. 



f " Nature," February 13, 1878, p. 281. 



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