English Setters. 



By D. Munro. 



II. DOGS {continued). 



Would that dogs could communicate their health and 

 energy to us, as they can their fearful malady ! They 

 possess, in a much higher degree than man, the power of 

 storing up energy in times of repose, and keeping it for 

 future use. A dog spends his spare time in absolute rest, 

 and is able to endure great drains of energy on due occa- 

 sion. He lies idly by the fire, and looks so lazy that it 

 seems as if nothing could make him stir, yet at a sign 

 from his master he will get up and go anywhere, without 

 hesitation about the distance. In old age dogs know that 

 they have not any longer these great reserves of force, and 

 decline to follow their masters who go out on horseback, 

 but will still gladly follow them on any merely pedestrian 

 excursion, well knowing the narrow hmits of human 

 strength and endurance. Dogs in the prime of life accom- 

 plish immense distances, not without fatigue, for these 

 efforts exhaust them for the moment, but they have such 

 great recuperative power that they entirely recover by rest. 



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