140 MAMMALIA—DOG. 
great difficulty, be made to quit his hold. Such is his rage, that at a bull 
fight in the north of England, a brute in the shape of a man, wagered, that 
he would successively cut off the feet of his dog, and that the animal should 
return to the attack after each amputation. The horrible experiment was 
tried, and the wager was won. ‘Two of these dogs, let loose, at once, are a 
match for a bull, three for a bear, and four for a lion. 
THE SHEPHERD’S DOG.! 
Tis dog is distinguished by his upright ears and sharp muzzle. His 
body is long, and covered with thick, woolly-like hair; his legs are rather 
short. All of his feet have one, and some of them two superfluous toes, 
which appear destitute of muscles, and hang dangling at the hind part of 
the leg. When properly trained, this dog becomes perfectly well acquaint- 
ed with every individual sheep of his master’s flock, and is of the greatest 
service to the pastoral inhabitants of the northern parts of Great Britain. 
THE BLOOD-HOUND 
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Is a tall, beautifully formed animal, usually of a reddish or brown color, 
which was anciently in high esteem in England. His employ was to 
recover any game that had escaped wounded from the hunter, or had been 
stolen out of the forest ; but he was still more serviceable in hunting 
thieves and robbers by their footsteps. For the latter purpose they are now 
almost disused in that country ; but they are still sometimes employed in 
the royal forests to track deet stealers, and on such occasions they display 
an extraordinary sagacity and acuteness of scent. In the Spanish West 
India islands, however, they are constantly used in the pursuit of criminals, 
and are accompanied by officers called chasseurs. 
1 C. domesticus. 
