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LIuflF sound, conveying a menace, and at length 

 the sharp snarl, when he finds it necessary to enforce 

 obedience, by running to the spot, and execute his 

 orders with well counterfeited anger ; or, if disap- 

 pointed, the half howling bay of lamentation at the 

 failure ? All these emotions are expressed in a 

 language which marks, the singular endowments 

 bestoAved by the Creator's fiat, for- purposes that 

 cannot well be mistaken, nor be studied, Avithout 

 calling upon our sympathy and affection. Dogs, 

 likewise, express most significantly, by the voice, 

 their desire to be admitted Avithin doors, and, still 

 more, in begging with perseverance ; or in resent- 

 ment, when treated with contempt. They are jea- 

 lous of the master's favour, quick in discovering 

 the respectable, insolent to the poor, selfish in gor- 

 mandizing, tyrannical among their meaner inferiors, 

 and fawning upon their superiors ; injury they 

 resent, with the discretion and pertinacity of poli- 

 ticians. 



Tilesius relates of his own dog, a fact, AAhicli he 

 witnessed : — ^The animal had been worried by ano- 

 ther of greater strength ; when returned to his 

 home, it was observed that he abstained from half 

 the proportion of his allotted food, and formed a 

 kind of store with his savings. After some days 

 he went out, brought several dogs of the vicinity 

 back, and feasted them upon his hoard. This sin- 

 gular proceeding attracted the author's attention, 

 who, watching the result, observed that they all 

 went out together ; and, following them, he found 



