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tone it mighl be mentioned, without getting op and retiring into the darkest corner of the room, 

 with great appearance of distress. Then, if it were said that the baker had been well paid, or 



that the baker was not hurt after all, Camp came forward, capered, harked, and rejoiced. When 

 he waa unable, toward the end of his life, to attend his master in his rides, lie watched for his 

 return, and the Bcrvant used to tell him Sir Walter was coming down the hill, or through the 

 moor. Camp never mistook him, although he did not use any gesture, but either went out at 

 the front to ascend the hills, or at the hack to get at the moor side. 



The use of terriers is various. In this country they are chiefly employed for destroying rats, 

 in which they display prodigious skill and activity. The black-and-tan variety is a favorite in 

 the livery Btables. 



To this fifth di\ ision belong the pariahs of India, and generally the vagabond street-dogs of Asia 

 and Africa, which we have already described. We must also mention under this head the Poe, 

 found in Bome of the islands in the Pacific; the Kararahe, the native breed of New Zealand — a 

 small species used as a watch-dog — probably the descendants of animals left on the island three 

 centuries ago by Spanish navigators; and the semi-domestic dogs of the Indians of Patagonia 

 and Terra del Fuego. Here also we must place the Dingo of New Holland. 



THIi DINGO. 



This remarkable variety has the head elongated, the forehead flat, and the ears short and erect, 

 or with a slight direction forward. The body is thickly covered with hair of two kinds, — the 

 one woolly and gray, the Other silky and of a deep yellow or fawn color. The limbs arc 

 muscular, and, in their form and proportions, resemble those of the common shepherd's dog. 

 Be tfl very active and courageous. When running, the head is lifted up, and the tail is carried 

 horizontally. Lik<< other wild dogs, he does not generally bark, but whines and growls. He does, 

 howev* r, occasionally bark, and has tie' same kind of snarling voice which the larger dogs com- 

 monly have. The specimens of the dingo that have been brought to Europe have usually been of a 

 Bavagc and intractable disposition. There have been several of these in the Zoological Gardens of 

 London. Some of them were inmates of that establishment for a dozen years, but not an inch- . 

 vidual acquired the bark of the other dogs by which they were surrounded. When a stranger 

 mad.' his appearance, or when the hour of feeding arrived, the howl of the Australasian was the 

 first sound that was heard, and it was louder than all the rest. If some of tliem throw off B 

 portion of their native ferocity, others retain it undiminished. A bitch and two of her whelps • 



