THE DOG. 
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fish sledges and carts laden with wood and 
> and to render many other useful services 
Performed elsewhere by the horse. The peo- 
® nf the Netherlands, too, have been long 
j'^^'^^tonxed to use dogs for the purposes of 
aught ; and the reader has doubtless ohser- 
® that in London the practice of harnessing 
them 
to light vehicles, trucks, baker’s wheel- 
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Tows, the small carts of itinerant venders 
^ats’ meat, and the like, has become very ge- 
*^®*'al ; and though their strength is not often 
j^ptoyed in combination, as in the case of the 
amtschadale and Esquimaux sledge-dogs. 
Still ^ o 
Lneir energy enables them to move con- 
^lyerable weights. 
th debased themselves by making 
^^®se animals the instruments of their barbarity, 
the use of blood-hounds by the Spaniards 
exterminate the unoffending Indians of 
erica, another variety of these sagacious 
'^adrupeds has displayed a truly affecting so- 
