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SPANIEL PUPPIES 
AND THEIR FOSTER-MOTHER. 
believe, no living specimen has ever entered 
England. This is the Phu-Quoc dog, which 
derives its name from the Island of Phu- 
Quoe (Cochin China), where the Marquis 
holds a concession from the French Govern- 
ment. Since the French conquest the 
Phu-Quoce has become very rare in his 
native land; and despite the extraordinary 
facilities enjoyed by the Marquis de 
Barthélemy, it is with difficulty he has 
been able to procure his specimens of the 
pure breed. He considers that there exist 
in all Kurope but three Phu-Quoc dogs— 
Can Lé and Pek-Te II., mother and son, 
the subjects of our illustration, and a dog 
now at the Paris Jardin d’Acclimatation, 
with whom it is hoped successfully to mate 
the bitch this year. Another specimen owned 
by the Marquis—Pek-Te I.—unhappily died 
last year from exhaustion after giving birth 
to twelve dead pups. The Phu-Quoce is a 
well-built, strongly made and active dog, with 
very powerful jaws. In colour it is brown, 
and our illustration of the brace, held by the 
Marquis’s keeper, gives avery good idea of the 
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size of the breed. A great peculiarity of the 
pure Phu-Quoe of unmixed lineage is that the 
hair on the back, instead of growing in the 
usual way, pots towards the head of the dog. 
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WE give on this page two photographs illus- 
trating queer animal friendships. 
Curious 3 z 
Animal _—_ Curiously enough a hen figures 
Friendships. 
in both. The first, sent to us 
by Mr. Newman, of Berkhampstead, repre- 
sents a farmyard fowl acting as _foster- 
mother to a litter of spaniel pups, whom she 
insisted on adopting, devoting herself to their 
comfort for hours at a time. ‘The second is 
a picture of Mrs. Brooke’s imported Dingo 
“Myall,” with his favourite chicken,-a queer 
pal for this usually somewhat bloodthirsty 
animal. ‘‘ Myall” is the sire of ‘“‘ Chelsworth 
Myall,’ whose portrait we gave on page 160. 
He was a very well-known prize-taker; he 
was perfectly broken to ferrets and an 
excellent ratter, but he would go nearly 
frantic at the sight of a sheep, on one 
occasion killing eleven in about as many 
minutes before he could be recaptured. 
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“MYALL” AND HIS PET CHICKEN. 
