76 HORTICULTURE. 



Of course, the majority of the committee were startled and de- 

 lighted with the novelty and grandeur of the discovery. There 

 were, to be sure, a few who had the foolhardiness to remark, that 

 the thing was not new, and had been acted upon, time out of mind, 

 in all good kennels. But the philosopher soon put down such non- 

 sense, by observing that the fact might, perchance, have been known 

 to a few, but who, before him, had ever shown the PRINCIPLE of the 

 thing ? 



And now, we should like to see that cur who shall dare to saj 

 the canine philosopher who has spent his life in studying nature and 

 the books, to such good results, shall not have a million for his 

 discoverv 



