THE 

 TRUE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG. 



A FEW months ago an acquaintance asked me 

 whether a smooth-coated dog that he had received 

 from Newfoundland was the true breed of that island 

 or not, and where he would be able to obtain a 

 similar animal. 



I took upon myself to answer him from my 

 personal experience. The subject then dropped. 

 However, I have now obtained information from Mr. 

 J. B. Juke's work on Newfoundland, compiled from 

 his experience while employed there as geological 

 surveyor, which information very much bears out 

 what I then stated. 



" A thin, short-haired, black dog belonging to Mr. 

 George Harvey, came off to us to-day. This animal 

 was of a breed very different from what we under- 

 stand by the term ' Newfoundland dog ' in England. 

 He has a thin, tapering snout, a long, thin tail, and 

 rather small but powerful legs, with a lanky body, 

 the hair short and smooth. These are the most 

 abundant dogs of the country, the long-haired, curly 

 dogs being comparatively scarce. They are by no 

 means handsome, but are generally more intelligent 

 and useful than the others. This one caught his own 

 fish. He sat upon a projecting rock beneath a fish- 

 flake or stage, where the fish are laid to dry, watching 

 the water, which had a depth of six or eight feet, 

 and the bottom of which was white with fish bones. 

 On throwing a piece of codfish into the water, three or 

 four heavy, clumsy-looking fish, called in Newfound- 



