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when grown up, it can scarcely have any feelings 

 in common with the rest of its kind. From this 

 education, it has no wish to leave the flock, and just 

 as another dog will defend its master, man, so will 

 these the sheep. It is amusing to observe, when 

 approaching a flock, how the dog immediately ad- 

 vances barking, and the sheep all close in his rear, 

 as if round the oldest ram. These dogs are also 

 easily taught to bring home the flock at a certain 

 hour in the evening. Their most troublesome fault, 

 when young, is their desire of playing with the 

 sheep ; for in their sport they sometimes gallop 

 their poor subjects most unmercifully. 



The shepherd-dog comes to the house every day 

 for some meat, and as soon as it is given him he 

 skulks away as if ashamed of himself. On these 

 occasions the house-dogs are very tyrannical, and 

 the least of them will attack and pursue the stran- 

 ger. The minute, however, the latter has reached 

 the flock, he turns round and begins to bark, and 

 then all the house-dogs take very quickly to their 

 heels. In a similar manner, a whole pack of the hun- 

 gry wild dogs will scarcely ever (and I was told by 

 some never) venture to attack a flock guarded by 

 even one of these faithful shepherds. The whole 

 account appears to me a curious instance of the 

 pliability of the affections in the dog ; and yet, 

 whether wild or however educated, he has a feel- 

 ing of respect or fear for those that are fulfilling 

 their instinct of association ; for we can under- 

 stand on no principle the wild dogs being driven 

 away by the single one with its flock, except that 

 they consider, from soime confused notion, that the 

 one thus associated gains power, as if in company 

 with its own kind. F. Cuvier has observed, that 

 all animals that readily enter into domestication, 

 consider man as a member of their own society, 



