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or a distaff may be seen in a few isolated cottages ; bnt both 

 the dog and the implement are exceptions to the general rule, 

 and are only worthy of notice as cvirious rehcs of a bygone 

 age." 



As before observed, the " good time " for dogs has arrived. 

 In the days, of their oppression and servitude, the advent of a 

 " day," — that is, a day of uncontrolled liberty and freedom of 

 action, — was a circumstance of such rare occurrence that only 

 one such could be — according to the old proverb — guajcanteed 

 to each dog in the course of its existence. Now, however, every 

 dog hag not only his " day," but all the days of hi? Ijfe. Gaol 

 is the doom of the man who sets dogs to fight each other. 

 Should he set the biggest mastiff to draw even so Ught a thing 

 as a perambulator, the same fate will inevitably overtake him. 

 Acts of Parliament have been made rendering him an article to 

 purloin which is a transportable offence j and that he may not, 

 when lame, and grey, and useless, die, as did his forefathers, in 

 a ditch, a hospital has been established at the north of 

 London, where night and day patients are admitted without 

 inquiry or recommendation. 



THE THIBBT MASTIFP. 



We win begin with this dog, not only because he is one of 

 the largest, if not the largest, dog in the world, but because he, 

 standing alone among his tribe, holds Europeans in the utmost 

 detestation: a white face a,t once rouses the Thibet's ire as 

 effectually as a rat displayed to a terrier. He may be a very 

 good and faithful animal, but still the last-mentioned fact is not 

 of a pleasant character, and the sooner he is dismissed the 

 better. 



Speaking of the Thibet dog, Mr. Broderip observes : " These 

 noble animals are the watch-dogs of the table-lp^nd of the 

 Himalaya mountains about Thibet. Their masters, the Bhoteas, 

 to whom they are most strongly attached, are a singular race, 

 of a ruddy copper colour, indicating the bracing air which they 

 breathe, rather reserved, but of an excellent disposition. The men 

 tUl the ground and keep sheep, and at certain seasons come 

 down to trade, bringing borax, tinctal, musk, &c., for sale. On 

 these occasions the women remain at home with the dogs, and 

 the encampment is watched by the latter, which have an almost 

 irreconcileable hatred to Europeans, and generally fly fero- 

 ciously at a white face." They are of a black colour, with a 

 tawny patch over each eye. Their skin seems to hang loosely, 



