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INTRODUCTION TO MR. YOUATT’S 
stud-grooms and trainers, contended it was impossible horses 
could “ look well in their coats,” or “ be healthy,” or “got into 
condition,” in ventilated stables ; a plausible sort of reasoning 
which, for too long, told with their employers. In time, how- 
ever, the light of truth, as it is always sure to do, burst forth 
with effulgence too strong to be resisted, and even the bastilles of 
Newmarket were perforated for the purpose of admitting air that 
was fit to respire, and of emitting air that was not. So Coleman, 
upon his favourite hobby —though he did, at times, most un- 
mercifully over-ride him — eventually proved triumphant, beating, 
sooner or later, every one of his opponents, Newmarket not ex- 
cepted, fairly out of the field. P. 
THE DOG. 
Next to the human being, this animal ranks highest in the scale 
of intelligence, and was evidently designed to be the companion and 
the friend of man. We exact the services of other animals, and, 
the task being performed, we dismiss them to their accustomed 
food and rest : but several of the varieties of the dog follow us 
to our home ; they are connected with many of our pleasures 
and our wants, and they guard our sleeping hours. 
From the earliest known history he was the protector of the 
habitation of the human being. At the feet of the lares, — those 
household deities who were supposed to protect the abodes of 
men, — the figure of a barking dog was frequently seen. In 
every age, and almost in every part of the globe, he has been 
connected with the labours, the dangers, and the pleasures of 
the chace. 
In process of time man began to surround himself with many 
servants from among the lower animals, yet he had but one 
friend — the dog ; one animal only whose service was voluntary, 
and who was susceptible of disinterested affection and gratitude. 
In every country and in every time there has existed between 
man and the dog a connexion different from that which is ob- 
served between him and any other animal. The ox and the 
