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the continent, where they use the turnspit mongrels 

 for the purposes to which our terriers, though 

 smaller in bulk, are far better adapted. 



In Germany, the Saufinder, or Boarsearcher, is 

 a large rough terrier dog, employed to rouse the 

 fiercest beasts of the forest from their lair in the 

 thickest underwood, and they never fail to effect the 

 purpose by their active audacity and noisy clamour. 

 They are usually of a wolfish grey-brown, with 

 more or less white about the neck and breast, and a 

 well fringed tail curled over the back; having in 

 all probability in them a cross of the Pomeranian 

 dog, w^hich may have increased their stature and 

 their caution. 



In England the cross of terriers is perceptible in 

 sheep and cattle dogs, but most of all in the breed 

 called bull-terriers, because it is formed of these two 

 varieties, and constitutes the most determined and 

 savage race known. It is reared in general for pur- 

 poses little honourable to human nature, and most 

 disgraceful to the lower orders of England, where, 

 for the sake of betting, the true wild game qualities 

 of the animals are exhibited in mutual combats, in 

 which neither will give up while life remains, and 

 the last struggle is borne without a groan ! Yet 

 they might be exported to, or bred with great ad- 

 vantage for the use of colonists in South Africa, 

 and contribute mainly to the security of persons 

 and property against the depredation of the lion and 

 the hyaena. 



The Russian, Finland, and Siberian dogs of the 



