POODLE. 



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nose, but has no particular fondness for hunting game, often 

 preferring a stick or a stone to a hare or pheasant. Two of 

 these dogs which were exhibited in London, in 18:29, astonished 



The Poodle. (Youatt.) 



every one by their clover performance, sitting up to table gravely, 



and playing a game at cards as quickly as a human being, the 



cards being placed before them, and the one to be played 



beinjT selected by the doom's foot. Of course this was all done 



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