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a month old. I kept it in the kennel with the other dogs, where it lived 

 for four months, and then died of diarrhoea. This little creature, too 

 refused every sort of food but raw meat. As it grew up, it was suffered to 

 go at large, and never attempted to run away. It was very frolicksome, 

 and would play, for want of a mate, with its own tail— for, notwithstand- 

 ing all its efforts to induce the other dogs to romp with it, one pup only 

 out of several would have anything to say to it, and the grown dogs all 

 avoided it. Its voice when extremely excited was a squeak. At all other 

 times it was silent, and it never made the least approach to a bark, properly 

 so called. When angered, it showed its teeth and applied its tail close 

 to the buttocks, in the manner of the domestic dog. When gratified by 

 caresses, it threw itself on its back, pawed the caresser's feet, and uttered 

 its peculiar squeaking notes. It distinguished the dogs of its own kennel 

 from others, as well as its keeper from strangers, and in its whole conduct 

 manifested to the full as much intelligence as any of my Sporting Dogs 

 of its age. But it was a shy shrinking creature, and rather unmanageable 

 on that account, and it would not endure being tied up. When this young 

 animal reached me, it had scarcely any taint of the villainous odour proper 

 to its race — the consequence of youth merely — for as it grew up the odour 

 increased more and more. The whelps, Nvhen born, have it not in the 

 slightest degree,males and females, when adult, are equally infected with it. 



The Budnsu is, in size, midway between the wolf and the jackal, 

 being two and a half feet long from the tip of the nose to the insertion 

 of the tail ; and twenty-one inches in average height. It is a slouching, 

 uncompact, long, lank, animal, with all tlic marks of uncultivation 

 about it — best assimihitcd in its general aspect to tlic jackal, but witii a 

 something inexpressibly, but genuinely, canine in its physiognomy. It 

 has a broad Hat luad, and sharp visage: large erect ears: a clicst 

 nor broad nor deep ; a slialluw cuniprcsscd barrel somewhat slraincil at llic 



