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of half-an-honr to such company ; and when the bell rung with the eagerness willi which prot , 

 ioy is sought he ran to his accustomed scat in the third class. 



His partiality to the police generally was extraordinary. Whenever he saw a man in the favourilc 

 garb, he expressed his pleasure liy walking near him, rubbing against, anil dancing aliout, him ; rmr did 

 he forget any one of them in death, for ho was present at the funeral of Italy, the policeman who wan 

 killed in Kingstown. He was able even to recognise them in plain clothes ; Imt then ihc\ must hii\<- 

 been old friends of " Peeler's." Wherever he went he got, a crust, a piece of meat, a pat mi tin- ln-ad, 

 or a rub down his glossy back, and was as well known in the force as any policeman in it. 



M. Blaze tells us that in the first regiment of Royal Guards there was a dog called Kitaillon. 

 Entertained by soldiers at the guard-house, ho always remained there ; his maxtcra changed 



twenty-four hours ; but that gave him no uneasiness. He would follow no one to thu barracks, but 

 looked on himself apparently as the servant of twelve soldiers, two corporals, a serjeant, and drummer 

 wherever they might happen to be. During the night, when it froze hard, the sentinel frequently 

 called Bataillon to warm himself in the dog's place at the stove ; yet the dog would have suffered death 

 rather than have passed beyond the door. "When we changed garrison," says the writer referred to. 

 "the dog followed the regiment, and immediately installed himself in the guard-house of the new 

 barracks. He knew all the soldiers; he caressed them all, but would take no notice ( .f those who did 

 not wear onr uniform. To this clog the regiment was a master an individual whom he loved. Hi 

 feeling was for blue dresses with amaranth facings : he despised all other colours.' 



The question has arisen, what is the descent of the Dog? And to this various answers have bee:, 

 given. The Matin Dog,* of which we have given an engraving, is a specimen of a large nice, most likely 

 imported into France' by the ( 'ymbics, or later, by the Franks; and from this, with more nationality 

 than sound reasoning, liuffou would derive a great many subordinate breeds of dogs in his fanciful 

 genealogy of the canine family. 



(Juvier considered dogs as forming a distinct tMQ and remarked that "the taming this annual is the 



* Canis laniai ins. Linn. 



