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their young are deposited, before they kill 

 it. If this supposition be correct — and from 

 the various animals that had been killed 

 about the caverns from which I got the 

 pups, some of them in a great measure 

 almost foreign to the spot, I have every 

 reason to believe that it is so, — what an 

 interesting sight it would be, could we 

 watch the pack bringing an animal from 

 some place, perhaps miles away, and witness 

 the various manoeuvres by which they would 

 force it to some particular spot ; how far 

 surpassing anjrthing we can conceive of a 

 pack of dogs merely running down and 

 killing an animal wherever they first succeed 

 in bringing it to bay. 



There is little doubt, but that the wild 

 dog may be completely domesticated; and 

 with the instinctive power implanted ia it 

 by the Creator, is it going beyond the bounds 

 of probability to suppose that they might be 

 taught to hunt animals in the same manner 

 to one particular spot, at the pleasure of 

 their master ? 



