OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



lates each category of existence in 

 nature's unintelligible plan. This 

 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 recogni- 

 tion of man by beast, this extraor- 

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