80 THE DOG IN HEALTH. 



The Landseer Newfoundland should in all respects 

 follow the black dog except in color, which may be any 

 that disqualifies for the black class; but those most in 

 favor are bronze or black and white, beauty in markings 

 to count high. 



The Esquimau Dog. A moderately large dog of twen- 

 ty-two to twenty-three inches in height, of wolf-like ap- 

 pearance, though the head is rather foxy, covered by long 

 hair with woolly undercoat and a long, gently curved, 

 almost bushy tail. 



They are only half domesticated, though employed in 

 large teams to draw sledges over the snow and ice of 

 northern America, usually under the leadership of one of 

 their number, that is acknowledged as master. They are 

 left to shift very much for themselves, and getting but 

 little of man's confidence or affection, give but little in 

 return. 



CLASS VI. 



WATCH-DOGS AND HOUSE-DOGS. 



The dogs of this class not being employed for securing 

 game, are not required to have either the scenting powers 

 or the conformation necessary for speed or for endurance 

 in locomotion found in hunting-dogs ; but, on the contrary, 

 that adapted for attack on intruders in the case of the 

 larger breeds, and in all the disposition and intelligence 

 fitting them for guarding persons and property. 



Most of them give warning by barking, and, in fact, in 

 some of the smaller members of the class such is the more 

 important part ; to this, however, the bulldog is an excep- 

 tion, as he usually attacks without any warning by the voice. 



