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dissimilar as it is possible for animals ©f tHfi aa'iii5' 

 genus to be. What can be more unlike than the 

 lap-dog and the mastiff — the Irish grey-hound 

 and the common cur. 



The Indian dog whicli I saw was accompanied 

 by his red master, and it immediately brought to 

 my mind the beautiful lines of Pope. 



Lo the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind 

 Sees God in clouds or hears him in the wind ; 

 iiis soul proud science never taught to stray 

 Far as the solar walk or milky way : 

 Yet simple nature to his hope has given. 

 Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven- 

 Some safer world in depth of woods enibrac'd, 

 Some happier island in the watery waste, 

 Where slaves once more their native land behold, 

 No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold. 

 To be, contents his natural desire, 

 He asks no angels wing, no seraph's fire ; 

 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 

 His faithful dog shall beer him company, 



St. Pierre well observes, that the dog is a true 

 friend, and the cat a courtier — the former is at- 

 tached to the person, and the latter to the house 

 of his^raaster ; and Buffon concludes his splendid 

 panegyric on the dog, by pronouncing that " he 

 is the only animal, whose natural talents are con- 

 spicuous, and whose education is always success- 

 ful." 



When Ulysses, after an absence of twenty years^ 

 returned to his home in the garb of a beggar, al- 



