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with white; the other more sprightly in appearance, with a shorter body, 
and the color reddish brown or black. It has a most acute sense of smell- 
ing, and an inveterate enmity to all kinds of vermin. Nor is it excelled by 
any dog in the quality of courage. It will encounter e-en the badger with 
the utmost bravery, though it often receives severe wounds in the contest, 
which, however, it bears with unshrinking fortitude. As it is very expert 
in forcing foxes and other game out of their coverts, and is particularly 
hostile to the fox, it is generally an attendant on every pack of hounds; in 
which case the choice of the huntsman is not directed by the size of the 
animal, but by its strength and power of endurance. 
TEE MST Ai AN Dee! 
Tuis dog, which is also called the Australasian and New Holland dog, 
and by the natives, the dingo, is about equal in size, and similar in its pro- 
portions, to the common house dog, or lurcher. It is two feet five inches in 
length, muscular legged, agile, and courageous, with a bushy tail, and long, 
straight hair, of a deep fawn color on the upper parts, and almost white on 
the under surface. He is exceedingly voracious and fierce. One of them 
has been known to leap on the back of an ass, which was not saved from it 
witheyt considerable difficulty. 
THE BULL-DOG? 
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‘gausu much less in size than the mastiff, the bull-dog is nearly equal to 
<‘sp ra strength, and superior to him in fierceness. Those of the brindled 
wind are accounted the best. No natural antipathy can exceed that of this 
animal egamst the bull. Without barking, he will naturally fly at and 
seize the fiercest bull; running directly at his head, and sometimes catching 
nold of his nose, he will pin the bull to the ground; nor can he, without 
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C. f. Australasie. 2 C. Molossus. 
