JUSTICE TO A DOG. 



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land ' sculpins/ with great heads and mouths, and 

 many spines about them, and generally about a foot 

 Jong, would swim in to catch it. There, the dog 

 would ' sit ' attentively, and the moment one turned 

 his broadside to him, he darted down like a fish-hawk, 

 and seldom came up without the fish in his mouth. 

 As he caught them, he carried them regularly to a 

 place a few yards off, where he laid them down, and 

 they told me that in the summer he would some- 

 times make a pile of fifty or sixty a day, just at 

 that place. 



" He never attempted to eat them, but seemed to 

 be fishing purely for his own amusement I watched 

 him for about two hours, and, when the fish did not 

 come, I observed he once or twice put his right foot in 

 the water and paddled it about. This foot was white, 

 and an onlooker said he did it to * toll,' or entice the 

 fish ; but whe * . was for this specific reason, or 



merely a mc .l of impatience, I could not exactly 

 decide. The whole proceeding struck me as remark- 

 able, more especially as they said he had never been 

 taught anything of the kind." 



Now, I have known many dogs catch fish in 

 America ; but they have always been of the breed 

 Mr. Jukes alludes to in the above graphic and enter- 

 taining picture. 



The Indians know no other breed than this smooth- 

 coated animal, and prize them for their sagacity 

 and wonderful powers of scent. From such being 

 the case, and their being by far more numerous than 

 the rough-coated beast, I think that there is little 

 doubt but that they are the pure and original breed 

 of Newfoundland, 



I am sorry to remove the children's favourite from 

 the high position he has obtained ; but justice 

 is justice even to a dog ; so let us depose " the 

 fraud " and exalt the Simon Pure. But where did 

 this brute, with the characteristics of the sheep and 



