bog," and in that country boar-hnnting is still a. common sport, 

 and the boar-hound generally bred for use. In appearance tht 

 dog in question is rather formidable ; it is taller at the shoulders 

 than the mastiff, the colour of which it usually assumes. The 

 Umbs are very stout and long, and the shape of the head, which 

 is rather large, partakes of the squareness of the mastiff and 

 the ferretty sharpness of the terrier. When the boar is brought 

 to bay, it is the business of the hound so to manoeuvre that the 

 animal's attention shall be fixed on it while the hunter is left at 

 liberty to attack. 



THE NEWEOUNDLAND DO(i. 



This, the largest, of the spaniels, is, as it deserves to be, one 

 of the most favourite dogs in England. In its native land, 

 however, whatever its deservings may be (it is just possible 

 that, ruled by cruelty, he is not quite the model animal we find 

 him), he is treated viUanonsly. " He is converted into a beast 

 of burden, and forced to suffer even greater hardships -than 

 those which generally fall to the lot of animals which are used 

 for the carriage of goods or the traction of vehicles. The Hfe 

 of a hewer of wood is proverbially one of privation, but the 

 existence of the native Newfoundland dog is still less to be 

 envied, being that of a servant of the wood-hewer. In the 

 winter, the chief employment of the inhabitants is to cut fuel, 

 and the occupation of the dog is to draw it in carts. The poor 

 animals are not only urged beyond their strength but are 

 meagerly fed on putrid salt fish, the produce of some preceding 

 gammers. Many of these noble doga sink xiuder th^ joint 



