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CHAPTER VI. — 
WATCHDOGS AND HOUSE-DOGS. 
1. The Bulldog—2. The Mastiff: (a) English ; (8) Cuban—3, The Mount 
St. Bernard : (4) Rough ; (R) Smosth—4. The Lion-Dog—5. The Shock- 
Dog—6. The Thibet Dog, 
THE peculiarity of this division is, that the dogs composing it are 
solely useful as the companions or guards of their owners, not being 
capable of being employed with advantage for hunting, in conse- 
quence of their defective noses, and their sizes being eithey too 
large and unwieldy or too small for that purpose. For the same 
reason they are not serviceable as pastoral dogs or for draught, 
their legs and feet, as well as their powers of maintaining long- 
continued exertion, being comparatively deficient. These dogs 
nearly all show a great disposition to bark at intruders, and 
thereby give warning of their approach; but some, as the bulldog, 
are nearly silent, and then their bite is far worse than their 
bark. Others, as, for {instance, the little house-dogs, generally 
with more or less of the terrier in them, are only to be used for 
the purpose of warning by their bark, as their bite would 
scarcely deter the most timid. The varieties are as follows :— 
I.—THE BULLDOG. 
F. Cuvier has asserted that this dog has a brain smaller in 
proportion than any other of his congeners, and in this way. 
accounts for his assumed want of sagacity. But though his 
authority is deservedly high, I must beg leave to doubt the fact 
as well as the inference; for if the brain is weighed with the body 
of the dog from which it was taken, it will be found to be rela- 
tively above the average, the mistake arising from the evident 
