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NOTES ON THE DOG TRIBE. 



on a grid-iron. I kept my seat ; and away went 

 Philip, scouring along the road with surprising 

 swiftness 



From that day forward, although he had a dis- 

 agreeable knack of depressing his long ears and 

 elevating his rump, he never attempted to lie down 

 with me on the public road. 



Now, if I had had a dog instead of a mule to 

 deal with, the dog being of a pliant disposition, 

 might have required a little coercion on my part; 

 and that would have been all, Whereas the mule 

 was equally callous, both to anodyne and harsh- 

 ness ;— and in order to reduce him to anything 

 in the shape of obedience, I was obliged to apply 

 the actual cautery; which means, in unsophisticated 

 English, nothing more nor less, than a red hot 

 poker. 



Were I asked an opinion, concerning the pedigree 

 of dogs, I should say, that the entire family of 

 the dog, may safely be reduced to one species only; 

 that species consisting of innumerable varieties; so, 

 that, barring size, individuals of all these varieties 

 would intermix, and produce productive issue. 



No matter whether we place a cur at the head 

 of the list, or a hound at the foot of it, there 

 will be offspring in abundance ; and the size 

 of that offspring, will depend upon the size of 



