SCOTTISH DEER-HOUND. 



VI. THE DOG. 



The DOG, reduced to servitude from the earliest civiliza- 

 tion of our race, forms, nevertheless, a member of a group of 

 beasts of prey, whose common characters unite them into a 

 family or tribe. The Canidse are spread over every region 

 of the habitable earth ; and are all fitted to live on flesh, al- 

 though they may subsist on vegetable food, and, in the do- 

 mesticated state, are sometimes fed entirely upon it. They 

 are mostly swift of foot, and endowed with a delicate sense 

 of animal odours, which enables them to pursue the traces of 

 their prey. They are either gregarious, living in packs and 



