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away, should help him in a state of nature to get his supper, 
is inconceivable; but that because one dog on scenting 
game assumes this strange position, his friend who is hunt- 
ing in company with him, instead—as one naturally would 
suppose him likely to do—of rushing to share the fun and 
partake of the spoils, should do the like, is far more won- 
derful; as, where it does not naturally exist, it is infinitely 
more difficult to teach. 
Naturalists have classified dogs under three principal, 
general divisions; veloces, the swift; feroces, the savage; 
and sagaces, the intelligent; of which the greyhound, the 
bull-dog, and the spaniel are respectively the types. To 
the latter species belong all the dogs which hunt by nose, 
having as their anatomical character, according to Blaine, 
“the head very moderately elongated; parietal bones not 
approaching each other above the temples, but diverging 
and swelling out, so as to enlarge the forehead, and the 
cerebral cavity. This group includes some of the most 
useful and intelligent dogs.” 
The anatomical distinction first named is patauably the 
cause, as well as the sign, of the superiority of this variety 
of dogs, as it gives room for the capacity of brain, which, 
whether in man or the inferior animal, invariably indicates 
and produces superiority of intellect. 
In all the spaniels proper, the eye is full, liquid, and 
speaking ; the nose well developed, with large and open 
nostrils; the coat silky, soft, and in some cases much waved, 
and almost curly.. The colors of the various families of 
this variety are almost innumerable, varying from pure 
black, white and yellow, tan, liver and orange, to ring- 
