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ILLUSTRATED STOCK DOCTOR. 
In Southern India there exists a wild dog readily tamed, and many are to 
be seen in the possession of the natives of Dakhund. A wild breed termed the 
Pariah inhabit the lower ranges of the Himalaya Mountains. They likewise 
hunt in packs and seldom miss their prey. When trained by the inhabitants 
of this country they make useful companions of the chase, bringing the wild 
boar to - bay, or indicating which course he has taken when disturbed. 
In Australia the settlers are much troubled by the Dingo or wild dog of the 
eountry. Many sheep are yearly worried to death, and the Dingo proving 
untamable is the greatest pest wherewith the herder has to deal. 
American Black ob Timber Wole. 
All wild dogs possess the erect pointed ear of the wolf he so much resemble* 
in nature, the eye likewise is oblique or angular as in the fox and the wolf. 
Prof. Beel gives a very ingenious reason for the pupil of the eye of the dog 
being circular and not oblique. He attributes the forward direction of the 
dog’s eye to the constant habit for many generations of looking towards hia 
master and obeying his voice. 
USEFULNESS OF THE DOG TO MAN. 
While almost every other quadruped fears man as his formidable enemy, 
there is one who regards him as a companion, and follows him as a friend; he 
does it from choice, seems to be created for the very purpose, and is not happy 
unless in his service, askiug but a trifle in return, and a kind word is all that 
he requires. His swiftness of foot, great strength, courage, intelligence, and 
highly developed power of smelling, have made him a powerful ally of man 
against the other animals, and he is the only one that has followed the human 
being all over the earth a willing slave. To the husbandman he is invaluable 
as a protector and aid in herding sheep, a useful companion of the chase, an 
exterminator of vermin, and guard to the house. 
It is not, our purpose, in these chapters, to dwell upon those breeds that ar* 
