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in order to keep them near the city. Upon these 

 occasions, the quadrupeds and birds are often 

 seen together tearing the same piece of flesh, 

 without the least enmity ; on the contrary, they 

 are known to live together with a kind of affec- 

 tion, and bring up their young in the same nest. 



Although the dog is a voracious animal, yet he 

 can bear hunger for a very long time. We have 

 an instance in the Memoirs of the Academy of 

 Sciences of this kind, in which a bitch that had 

 been forgotten in a country-house, lived forty 

 days, without any other nourishment than the 

 wool of a quilt which she had torn in pieces. It 

 should seem that water is more necessary to the 

 dog than food ; he drinks often, though not 

 abundantly; and it is commonly believed, that 

 when abridged in water, he runs mad. This 

 dreadful malady, the consequences of which are 

 so well known, is the greatest inconvenience that 

 results from the keeping this faithful domestic. 

 But it is a disorder by no means so frequent as 

 the terrors of the timorous would suppose : the 

 dog has been often accused of madness, without 

 a fair trial ; and some persons have been suppos- 

 ed to receive their deaths from his bite, when 

 either their own ill-grounded fears, or their natu- 

 ral disorders, were the true cause. 



THE WOLF. 



The Dog and the Wolf are so very much alike 

 internally, that the most expert anatomists can 



