OUR FRIEND THE DOG 



our disposal. Is he to aid us in 

 the pursuit of game in the plains ? 

 His legs lengthen inordinately, his 

 muzzle tapers, his lungs widen, 

 he becomes swifter than the deer. 

 Does our prey hide under wood ? 

 The docile genius of the species, 

 forestalling our desires, presents 

 us with the basset, a sort of almost 

 footless serpent, which steals into 

 the closest thickets. Do we ask 

 that he should drive our flocks? 

 The same compliant genius grants 

 him the requisite size, intelligence, 

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