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We have no comments to offer upon this sin- 

 gular alliance. Bulwer, in his " Children of 

 Night," makes Messrour, the immortal, say, 

 that in a period of five thousand years, spent in 

 the study of man, he had not yet discovered the 

 mysteries in the heart of a boor ; how then, shall 

 we attempt to pry through that impenetrable 

 veil which the Creator of all things, in his Om- 

 niscence, has placed between man made after 

 his own image, and the brutes over which he 

 has given him sway? 



Dogs sometimes manifest a taste for the sweets 

 of liberty in rather a whimsical way. 



A friend of ours once owned a beautiful setter, 

 who, unfortunately, preferring a wilderness to a 

 garden, uprooted rose-bushes, grubbed up gera- 

 niums, tore down grape vines, and made bone 

 depositories of strawberry beds. He was, of 

 course, put on chain. On the first opportunity 

 he disappeared, and for weeks nothing was heard 

 of his whereabouts. At last they found him in 

 the street, with a collar on his neck, bearing the 

 name and residence of a new owner. An expla- 

 nation ensued, when it was discovered that he 

 had attached himself to the person in question, 

 with whom he had been residing ever since his 

 disappearance, and in whose company he had 



