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tone it iniglit be mentioned, without getting xxp and retiring into the darkest corner of the room, 
with great appearance of distress. Then, if it were said that the baker had been well paid, or 
that the baker was not hurt after all, Camp came forward, capered, barked, and rejoiced. When 
ho was unable, toward the end of his life, to attend his master in his rides, he watched for his 
return, and the servant used to tell him Sir Walter was coming down the hill, or through the 
moor. Camp never mistook him, although he did not use any gesture, but either went out at 
the front to ascend the hills, or at the back to get at the moor side. 
The use of terriers is various. In this country they are chiefly employed for destroying rats, 
in which they display prodigious skill and activity. The black-and-tan variety is a favorite in 
the livery stables. 
To this fifth division belong the pariahs of India, and generally the vagabond street-dogs of Asia 
and Africa, which we have already described. We must also mention under this head the Poe, 
found in some of the islands in the Pacific ; the Kararahe, the native breed of New Zealand — a 
small species used as a watch-dog — probably the descendants of animals left on the island three 
centuries ago by Spanish navigators ; and the semi-domestic dogs of the Indians of Patagonia 
and Terra del Fuego. Here also we must place the Dingo of New Holland. 
THE DINGO. 
This, remarkable variety has the head ©lopgated, the forehead flat, and the ears short and erect, 
or with a slight direction forward. The. body is thickly covered with hair of two kinds, — the 
one woolly and gray, the other silky and of a deep yellow or fawn color. The limbs are 
muscular, and, in their form and proportions, resemble those of the common shepherd's dog. 
He is very active and courageous. When running, the head is lifted up, and the tail is carried 
horizontally. Like other wild dogs, he does not generally bark, but whines and growls. He does, 
however, occasionally bark, and has the same kind of snarling voice which the larger dogs com- 
monly have. The specimens of the dingo that have been brought to Europe have usually been of a 
savage and intractable disposition. There have been several of these in the Zoological Gardens of 
London. Some of them were inmates of that establishment for a dozen years, but not an indi- 
vidual acquired the bark of the other dogs by which they were surrounded. When a stranger 
made his appearance, or when the hour of feeding arrived, the howl of the Australasian was the 
first sound that was heard, and it was louder than all the rest. If some of them throw off a 
portion of their native ferocity, others retain it undiminished. A bitch and two of her whelps, 
