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DOG. 



Class I. 



or dancing dog, or such as was taught a variety 

 of tricks, and carried about by idle people as a 

 shew. These Degeneres were of no certain shape, 

 being mongrels or mixtures of all kinds of dogs. 

 We should now, according to our plan, after 

 enumerating the several varieties of British dogs, 

 give its general natural history; but since 

 LinncEiis has already performed it to our hand, 

 we shall adopt his sense, translating his very 

 \vords (wherever we may) with literal exactness. 

 " The dog eats flesh, and farinaceous veg;e- 

 tables, but not greens : its stomach digests 

 bones : it uses the tops of grass as a vomit.* 

 It voids its excrement on a stone : the album 

 grtecum is one of the greatest encouragers of 

 putrefaction. It laps up its drink with its 

 tongue : it voids its urine sideways, by lifting 

 up one of its hind legs ; and is most diuretic 

 in the company of a strange dog. Odor at 

 anum alterius: its scent is most exquisite, 

 when its nose is moist : it treads lightly on its 

 toes ; scarcely ever sweats ; but when hot lolls 

 out its tongue. It generally walks frequent- 

 ly round the place it intends to lye down on : 

 its sense of hearing is very quick when asleep : 



* It is not to be supposed that grass acts as an emetic, but 

 merely occasions sickness by its irritation of the fauces, as when 

 a feather is employed by mankind for a similar purpose ; mixed 

 with food it does not produce vomiting. Ed. 



