THE BLACK BEAR OF MUSKOKA 109 



The Irish retriever is full of pluck, a dashing 

 water-dog, very intelligent, and a capital com- 

 panion, but he is too impulsive. When game 

 is in view he is positively irrepressible, and is 

 addicted to hunting by the eye in preference to 

 the nose. A big rough terrier is by no means 

 the worst sort of dog." 



President Roosevelt writes : " Every settler is 

 apt to have four or five large mongrel dogs 

 with hound blood in them, which serve to drive 

 off beasts of prey from the sheepfold and cattle- 

 shed, and are also used when the occasion suits 

 in regular hunting, whether after bear or deer. 

 During the last score of years an entirely 

 different type of dog from the foxhound has 

 firmly established itself in the field of American 

 sport. This is the greyhound, whether the 

 smooth-haired, or the rough-coated Scotch deer- 

 hound." 



Many army officers posted in the far West 

 use greyhounds to course the jack rabbit, 

 coyote, and sometimes deer, antelope, and grey 

 wolf. 



Young bears are very playful and gentle in 

 confinement up to a certain age, but they are 

 apt to become treacherous as they grow older. 



