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carriages. Having a height of 

 twenty-one inches, he cannot we 

 fulfill the usual functions of an 

 English terrier. 



And now, in taking leave 

 of terriers, we must con- 

 tent ourselves, in conse- 

 quence of limited space, 

 by merely naming the red- 

 brown Irish terrier, who 

 possesses excellent domes 

 tic c|ualities, and the Welsh 

 terrier, the product of English 

 breeding, — a weakened specimen 

 of the Airesdale and Irish terriers 



Tlie hound. We shall now end this 

 rapid glance cast over the enormous extent of 

 the dog kingdom by causing the hounds to i)ass 



those who desire to know lundamen- 

 tally the history rjf the canine 

 races, to take, as their fii'st 

 study, the hound, whose t)|)e 

 we find ahiKJSt imaltered 

 both during and preceding 

 the Chi'istian era. His 

 lillie form, his jjointed 

 head, his strong, lean legs, 

 his eyes lull oi fire, his 

 small, delicate ears, and his 

 veiy deep chest show him at 

 a glance to be a dog destined 

 to run fast, whether we judge by 

 representations of him made foiu' hun- 

 dred )'ears before Christ, by modern 

 pictures, or by the living animal. The English 

 short-haired hound (the greyhound) and the 



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German Terrier 



English Tekkif.ij (Ikl.axoais) 



Dutch Tekkter 

 (SsrousjE) 



(Pincher) 



at full gallop before us, as is done in military Arabian hound (the slougi) are the most ancient 

 reviews. The celebrated race of St. Bernards tN'i^es we possess of the race. The latter, esjie- 



cially, imported and acclimated in the Low 



will be treated separately, and the blood- 

 hounds will elsewhere show us their 

 talents as detectives. We advise all 



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