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she had apparently been well broken in, and always well used, ran away 

 from the habitation of her master, and betook herself to the woods. She 

 killed a great number of hares and made free with the sheep, and became 

 an intolerable nuisance to the neighbourhood. She was occasionally seen, 

 and the depredations that were committed were brought home to her. 

 Many were the attempts made to entrap or destroy her ; but in vain : 

 for more than six months she eluded the vigilance of her pursuers. At 

 length she was observed to creep into a hole in an old barn. She was 

 caught as she came out, and the barn being searched three whelps were 

 found, which, very foolishly, were destroyed. 



The bitch evinced the utmost ferocity, and, although well secured, 

 attempted to seize every one who approached her. She was, however, 

 dragged home and treated with kindness. By degrees her ferocity abated. 

 In the course of two months, she became perfectly reconciled to her 

 original abode, and, a twelvemonth afterwards (1822), she ran successfully 

 several courses. There was still a degree of wildness in her appearance ; 

 but, although at perfect liberty, she seemed to be altogether reconciled to 

 a domestic life. 



In 1784 a dog was left by a smuggling vessel on the coast of Northum- 

 berland. He soon began to worry the sheep for his subsistence, and did 

 so much mischief that he caused very considerable alarm. He was fre- 

 quently pursued by hounds and greyhounds ; but when the dogs came up 

 he lay upon his back as if supplicating for mercy, and in that position they 

 would never hurt him. He therefore lay quietly until the hunters ap- 

 proached, when he made off without being followed by the hounds until 

 they were again excited to the pursuit. He one day led them 30 miles in 

 this way. It was more than three months before he was caught, and was 

 then shot. a 



A dog with every character of the wild one has occasionally been seen 

 in some of the forests of Germany, and among the Pyrenean mountains ; 

 but he has rarely been found gregarious there. In the country on the 

 eastern side of the Gulf of Venice wild dogs are more frequent. They 

 increase in the Austrian and Turkish dominions, and are found on almost 

 every part of the coast of the Black Sea, but even there they rarely 

 gather in flocks: they do not howl in concert, as the wolf; nor are they 

 the precursors of other and larger beasts, like the jackal. Most of these 

 dogs have the muzzle and head elongated, the ears erect, triangular, and 

 small, the body and neck large and muscular, and the tail short, but with 

 a brush of crisped hair. In many parts of Arabia the wild dog or dakhun 

 is occasionally found. In Persia, they are most decidedly congregated 

 together, and still more so in almost every part of India. b 



a Annals of Sporting, voL vi. p. 99. weather ; for, if one drop of water from a 

 b The superstition of the Arabians and dog should fall on their raiment, their de- 

 Turks with regard to dogs is somewhat votion would be interrupted and useless, 

 singular : neither have they much affec- They who are fond of hunting make their 

 tion for these animals, or suffer them to be religion subservient to their pleasure, and 

 in or near the camp, except to guard it in say that greyhounds and setters are ex- 

 the night. They have, however, some cepted from the general rule, because when 

 charity for the females that have whelps. not running these dogs are tied up where 

 As for other dogs, they feed them well, nothing unclean can reach them, and they 

 and give them good words, but never are never suffered to eat any thing unclean, 

 touch them nor go near them, because Their opinion is the same with regard to 

 dogs are regarded as unclean animals. small dogs, which are kept with great care, 

 They particularly drive them away in wet and no one willingly injures a dog, or, if 



