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of skin and tlie larger bones, they had devoured every particle of 

 him ; and so much for Mr. Frank Buckland and his proverb that 

 " Dog will not eat dog." Won't he just, when he has the chance ! 

 Nor is this by any means the only instance of canine cannibalism 

 that might be adduced from our common-place book in disproof of 

 any proverb or saying whatever to the contrary. Poor " Albert ! " 

 we are ashamed to confess how much grieved we were for his death, 

 his ovicidal tendencies notwithstanding. His upper jaw, showing 

 a development of dentition of which a Bengal tiger need not have 

 been ashamed, is the only relic of our gallant dog now remaining 

 to us ; and on the ex pede Hereulem principle, we point to that 

 with a melancholy satisfaction in telling how big and brave, afloat 

 and ashore, was our matchless Labrador. 



