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DOGS. 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



Learned Dog and Show-woman — Education of Sporting Dogs 



— Hereditary Instinct of Dogs — Their thievish propensities 

 descend to their offspring — Bad-tempered Dogs — Breaking 

 of Dogs — Their jealousies — Their Hunting alliances — 

 Attachment of a Dog to his Master — Dog-eating reprobated 



— Bloodhounds — Skye Terriers — Dogs combining against 

 a common enemy — Old Dogs — Singular instance of sagacity 

 in one. 



Although I am perfectly content with witnessing 

 the sagacity and instinct displayed by my own dogs 

 in their every-day employments and proceedings, 

 and am, generally speaking, unwilling to comite- 

 nance the trickery of what are called " learned 

 dogs," yet the other day, to please my children, 1 

 allowed a woman, who sent up a most dirty-faced 

 card, announcing herself as the possessor of " The 



MOST ASTONISHING LeARNED DoG EVER KNOWN," 



to exhibit the animal in our front hall. 



The woman herself was a small, sharp-looking 

 personage, with the sodden and hard expression of 



