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serviceable dog-, althouq-h it keeps close when searching. It takes 

 readily to the water, soon learns to retrieve, and is most tractable. 



The spiuoiie, with long and shaggy coat, is stronger and capable 

 of harder work, and plunges more readily into thick undergrowth, 

 feels the cold of winter less keenly, swims well, and searches his 



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game in untiring fashion ; so that he is also most serviceable to the 

 sportsman, though his scent is duller. Another typical Italian dog 

 is the segiigio, a sort of beagle; its coat black -and -tan and white. 

 There are two varieties ; one is smooth-coated, the other rough. 

 It is used, in packs of three or four couple, to hunt the hare ; and 



