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portrait. We have now to consider the behaviour, 

 under similar circumstances, of the British mastiff, a 

 more intelligent animal than the bull-dog, though not 

 regarded as standing by any means first among dogs 

 in this respect. The particular mastiff in question is 

 one to whom I had the pleasure of being introduced 

 some five years since, Dr. Huggins's dog Kepler. He 

 is worthy of a brief biographical sketch. He was a 

 son (that is, Kepler was) of the celebrated Turk, and 

 was born about the year 1871. " He stands," wrote 

 Mrs. Huggins of him, towards the close of 1876, a few 

 months before his lamented decease, " thirty inches 

 high, and is lion colour on the body; his face, the 

 tips of his ears, and the tip of his tail, are marked 

 with black. In disposition he is usually exceedingly 

 affectionate and gentle, though he can be otherwise. 

 Probably he thinks [though here I must confess that, 

 strongly though Mrs. Huggins's opinion would sup- 

 port my case, I cannot altogether agree with her] that 

 the words of George Herbert may apply to dogs as 

 well & to men, and so reasons that 



He is a fool who cannot be angry, 

 But lie is a wise dog who will not. 



He has a clear idea of his duty in life. As Mr. Carlyle 

 would say, ' he has found his work to do/ and consi- 

 ders it to be to borrow the expression of an old 

 writer f to kepe his mastre and his maistirs hous/ 

 To this end he is continually on the watch, barking 

 in quite different ways as different comers approach' 

 He has a bark of welcome for those he loves ; of cour- 



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