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Tvill in two or three days render such animals perfectly 

 submissive for ever after. The last kind are rank im- 

 postors. No one not familiar with these animals Avould 

 credit the arts which they can with such excellent effect 

 and apparent genuineness practise to gain their ends. 

 They have been used to be carried, and they prefer 

 riding in the arms of a human being. Their insinuating 

 tricks ought to be rewarded only by laughter, accompa- 

 nied with an admonition. 



Dogs are very intelligent. They understand much 

 more than men choose to give them credit for. Their 

 pride is enormous, and through this feeling they are 

 easily moved. Laughter, when directed against himself, 

 no dog can endure, and the slightest reprimand is always 

 answered by an immediate change of aspect. Rather 

 than have their dignity offended, dogs will quickly be- 

 come honest, especially when deceit is experienced to be 

 of no avail. People who are physiognomists may detect 

 this sentiment impressed upon the countenance. Upon 

 the next page is a portrait of a Mastiff. Mark the abso- 

 lute Asiatic dignity, only outwardly slurred over by a 

 heedlessness of behaviour. Does it not seem as though 

 the creature, through very pride reposing upon strength, 

 was above forms 1 Who could think of laughing at such 

 gravity ? Would it not be like ridiculing nature to insult 

 one who has such outward claims to our respect 1 



Sporting dogs will always take the exercise that is 

 beneficial, and for such the cold bath is much to be recom- 

 mended. Only in skin diseases should the tepid bath be 



