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BOG* 
stance. This wonderful dog was born at Zeitz m 
Mishia, in Saxony. 
A little dog, if advices from Sweden may be cre« 
dited, was some years ago exhibited at Stockholm* 
which had been taught to speak many words, and 
to utter even complete sentences, in French and 
Swedish. Vrve le Roi he uttered very gracefully. 
The dog, when first whelped, is not a com- 
pletely finished animal. In this kind, as in all the 
rest which bring forth many at a time, the young 
are not so perfect as in those which bring forth 
one or two. They are always produced with the 
eyes closed, the lids being held together, not by 
sticking, but by a kind of thin membrane, which 
Is torn as soon as the upper eye-lid becomes strong 
enough to raise it from the under. In general, 
their eyes are not opened till ten of twelve days 
old. During that time, the bones of the skull are 
not completed, the body is puffed up, the nose is 
short, and the whole form but ill-sketched 
out. In less than a month the puppy begins to 
use all its senses ; and from thence makes hasty 
advances to its perfection. At the fourth month* 
the dog loses some of his teeth, as in other ani^ 
Snals, and these are renewed by such as never fall. 
The number of these amount to forty-two, which 
Is twelve more than is found in any of the cat kind, 
which are known never to have above thirty,. 
The teeth of the dog, being his great and only 
weapon, are formed in a manner much more ser- 
viceable than those of the former ; and there is 
scarce any quadruped that has a greater facility 
in rending, cutting, or chewing its food. He cuts 
with his incisors, or fore teeth, he holds with his 
four great canine teeth, and he cheWs his meat 
with his grinders ; these tire fourteen in number* 
and so placed, that, when the jaws shut, there 
