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when taken home, and treated with kindness and 
lenity, they quickly become submissive and fami- 
liar, and continue faithfully attached to their 
masters. Different in this from the wolf or the 
fox, who, though taken never so young, are gentle 
only while cubs, and, as they grow older, give 
themselves up to their natural appetites of rapine 
and cruelty. In short, it may be asserted, that the 
dog is the only animal whose fidelity is unshaken : 
the only one who knows his|master and the friends 
of the family ; the only one who instantly distin- 
guishes a stranger ; the only one who knows his 
name, and answers to the domestic call ; the only 
one who seems to understand the nature of subor- 
dination, and seeks assistance ; the only one who, 
when he misses his master, testifies his loss by his 
complaints ; the only one who, carried to a distant 
place, can find the way home ; the only one whose 
natural talents are evident, and whose education is 
always successful. 
In the same manner, as the dog is of the mo<ft 
complying disposition, so also is it the most suscep- 
tible of change in its form : the varieties of this 
animal being too many for even the most careful 
describer to mention. The climate, the food, and 
the education, all make strong impressions upon 
the animal, and produce alterations in its shape, 
its colour, its hair, its size, and in every thing but 
its nature. The same dog taken from one cli- 
mate, and brought to another, seems to become 
another animal ; but different breeds are as much 
separated to all appearance, as any two animals 
the most distinct in nature. Nothing appears to 
continue constant with them, but their internal 
conformation; different in the figure of the body, 
in the length of the nose, in the shape of the head, 
in the length and the direction of the ears and 
tail, in the colour, the quality, and the quantity 
