animal, our good familiar dog, 

 simple and unsurprising as may 

 to-day appear to us what he has 

 done, in thus perceptibly drawing 

 nearer to a world in which he 

 was not born and for which he 

 was not destined, has neverthe- 

 less performed one of the most 

 unusual and improbable acts that 

 we can find in the general history 

 of life. When was this recognition 

 of man by beast, this extraordi- 

 nary passage from darkness to 

 light, effected ? Did we seek out 

 the poodle, the collie, or the mas- 



WM 



