HISTORY OF THK DOG. 
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sheep submit to one controul, but their affections are principally, 
if not solely, confined to themselves. They submit to us ; but 
they can rarely be said to love or even to recognize us, except 
as connected with the supply of their wants. 
The horse will share some of our pleasures. He enjoys the 
chace as much as does his rider; and, when contending for vic- 
tory on the course, he feels the full influence of emulation. 
Remembering the pleasure he has experienced with his master, 
or the daily supply of food from the hands of the groom, he 
sometimes exhibits evident tokens of recognition ; but this is 
founded on a selfish principle — he neighs that he may be fed, 
and his affections are easily transferred. 
The dog is the only animal that is capable of disinterested af- 
fection. He is the only one that regards the human being as his 
companion, and follows him as his friend ; the only one that 
seems to possess a natural desire to be useful to man, or, from a 
spontaneous impulse, attaches himself to him. We take the 
bridle from the mouth of the horse, and turn him free into the 
pasture, and he testifies his joy in his partially recovered liberty. 
We exact from the dog the service that is required of him, and 
he still follows us. He solicits to be continued as our companion 
and our friend, and by many an expressive action tells us how 
much he is pleased and thankful. He shares in our abundance, 
and he is content with the scantiest and most humble fare. He 
loves us while living, and has been known to pine away on the 
grave of his master. 
As an animal of draught the dog is highly useful in some 
countries. What would become of the inhabitants of the northern 
regions if the dog was not harnessed to the sledge, and the 
Laplander, and the Greenlander, and he of Kamtschatka drawn, 
and not unfrequently at the rate of nearly a hundred miles a day, 
over the snowy wastes? In Newfoundland the timber, one of 
the most important articles of commerce, is drawn to the water 
side by the docile but ill-used dog : and we need only to cross 
the British Channel in order to see how useful, and, generally 
speaking, how happy a beast of draught the dog can be. 
If in our country, and to its great disgrace, this employment 
of the dog has been accompanied by such wanton and shameful 
