THE DOG. 65 



Character, &c. 



CHAP. IV. 



" Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutor'd mind, 

 Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: 

 His soul proud science never taught to stray 

 Far as the solar walk, or milky way : 

 Yet .simple nature to his hope has given, 

 Behind the cloud-topp'd hill, an humbler heav'n; 

 Some safer world, in depth of woods embrac'd, 

 Some happier island, in the wat'ry waste ; 

 Where slaves once more their native land behold ; 

 No fiends torment, no Christians thirst for gold : 

 But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 

 His faithful dog 1 shall bear him company." 



THE DOG. 



" THE dog," says the Comte de Buffbn, in- 

 dependent of his beauty, strength, vivacity, and 

 nimbleness, has all the interior qualities which 

 can attract the regard of man. To his master 

 he flies with alacrity, and submissively lays at 

 his feet all his courage, strength, and talents : 

 he seems to consult, interrogate, and supplicate 

 for orders, which he is solicitous to execute ; and 

 a glance of the eye is sufficient, for he under- 

 stands the smallest signs of his owner's will. 

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