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as it will often give up a chase just at the critical moment, and is too apt to turn aside 

 from its legitimate quarry for the purpose of immolating a tame sheep or goat. 



ALL the various Dogs which have been brought under the subjection of men are 

 evidently members of one single species, canis famtliaris, being capable of mixture to 

 an almost unlimited extent. By means of crossing one variety with another, and tak- 

 ing advantage of collateral circumstances such as locality, climate, or diet, those who 

 have interested themselves in the culture of this useful animal have obtained the varied 

 forms which are so familiar to us. In general character, the groups into which domesti- 

 cated Dogs naturally fall are tolerably similar, but the individual characters of Dogs are 

 so varied, and so full of interest, that they would meet with scanty justice in ten times 



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the space that can be afforded to them in these pages. It has been thought better, 

 therefore, to occupy the space by figures and descriptions of the chief varieties of the 

 domesticated Dog, rather than to fill the pages with anecdotes of individuals. Up- 

 wards of forty varieties of the Dog will be described in the following pages, and ill- 

 ustrated with figures which, in almost every instance, are portraits of well-known 

 animals. 



One of the most magnificent examples of the domesticated Dog is the THIBET DOG, 

 an animal which, to his native owners is as useful as he is handsome, but seems to 

 entertain an invincible antipathy to strangers of all kinds, and especially towards the 

 face of a white man. These enormous Dogs are employed by the inhabitants of Thibet 

 for the purpose of guarding their houses and their flocks, for which avocation their 

 great size and strength render them peculiarly fit. It often happens that the male in- 



