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carried game the first day she was taken out, and showed as 

 much firmness and assurance, as dogs who had been carefully 

 bred under the influence of the whip and collar. 



Colonel Montagu relates an instance of extraordinary friend- 

 ship which subsisted between a Chinese goose and a pointer 

 who had killed the gander. The pointer was most severely 

 punished for the misdemeanour, and had the dead bird tied to 

 his neck. The solitary goose became extremely distressed for 

 the loss of her partner, and only companion ; and probably, 

 having been attracted to the dog's kennel by the sight of her 

 dead mate, she seemed determined to persecute the culprit by 

 her constant attendance and continual vociferations -, but after 

 a little time, a strict friendship subsisted between these incon- 

 gruous animals. They fed out of the same trough, lived under 

 the same roof, and in the same straw-bed kept each other warm ; 

 and when the dog was taken to the field, the inharmonious 

 lamentations of the goose for the absence of her friend were 

 incessant. 



THE COACH-DOG, OR DALMATIAN DOG. 



Buffon has classed the coach- dog with the hounds, but it has 

 neither scent nor sagacity sufficiently acute to entitle it to rank 

 among dogs of the chase. In shape, it certainly somewhat 



