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him? A dog. Who was it that, licked the hand of the master 

 who stayed him, thereby showing a spirit of forgiveness 

 rarely met with in man ? ' A dog. There are some wise men 

 who were never children— they happened to be born old; 

 but then, again, thank God, there are men who can look 

 cheerfully back to the days of their boyhood, and remember 

 with pride the companion of their happy hours when sport- 



ing in the meadow or in the lane. Pompey, Nero, Jaok or 

 Tray was romping by his side, and ill-fared the man who 

 dared do harm to that happy boy. Are there any such in 

 the Board of Aldermen ? H so, reconsider this bill before 

 it.becomes a law, Make a distinction between intelligence 



and ignorant spitefulness. Amend the law so that the spitz 

 will and must be reached, whether in the palaces of Fifth 

 Avenue, or the more humble abodes of Dutchtown. Do 

 not tax, but exterminate them as a contagious evil to be 

 dreaded. But, for mercy's sake, spare the faithful, honest 

 friend of youth and old age, and the lips of poor children — 

 who love their dumb friends, but have not two dollars to 

 spare — will open with words of gladness, and rejoice in the 

 deliverance of their speechless companions from an ungen- 

 erous and cruel, ill-timed death. There is a divinity that 

 directs the destinies of dogs as well as men, and to those 

 people who are in no way superstitious it may be gratifying 

 to learn that the last official who signed the death-warrant 

 of man's best friend did not live to see it tested, for he 

 dropped dead out of his chair. It is to be hoped that our 

 present worthy Mayor will not meet with any such ill-luck; 

 and it is also to behoped that he will not sign this bill in 

 its present shape, but send it back from whence it came, 

 with a veto message that will touch the tender chords in the 

 manly bosoms of the present Board of Aldermen. X. 



A Native Strain. — We give this week capital portraits of 

 Cora and Cora H, representatives of a fine breed of native 

 setters, owned by Messrs. Manasseh and Everett Smith of 

 Portland, Maine. Cora, red and white, was a present from 

 the late Cale Loring, whose name is familiar to so many of 

 our readers; she is thirteen years old. In 1872 Cora was bred 

 to the imported Gordon setter Grouse, a Crystal Palace win- 

 ner, combining the Kent and Regent strains. Of this pro- 

 duce one, Guy, was almost wholly of a beautiful red color. 

 Subsequently a red and white bitch, Hark, was bred from 



Grouse, and a red and white bitch named Flint. Guy and 

 Flash were mated, and their produce was Cora IT, who is of a 

 beautiful red with scarcely any white. The dogs of this strain 

 have great endurance and intelligence, and are capital field 



peformers. Our space will not permit us to go into further 

 particulars, but the dogs, particularly Cora H and a litter of 

 puppies by Guy, will be at the Bench Show. As a purely 

 " native " strain it is probably unexcelled. 



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