THE DOG. 
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any high estimation among the Jews ap¬ 
pears from many passages of Scripture. 
‘ Am I a dog, that thou comest against me 
with staves?’ said Goliath to David. ‘Is 
thy servant a dog, that he should do this 
great thing?’ said Hazael to Elisha, who 
was recounting to him the crimes he would 
be led to commit. It was forbidden by the 
law to bring the price of a dog into the 
treasury of the Lord. St. John, in the 
Revelation, speaking of the Holy City, 
says, ‘without are dogs,’—drawing his il¬ 
lustration, no doubt, from the multitudes of 
unowned, half-starved dogs which infest 
almost all Eastern cities and are sometimes 
dangerous to those who go about at night.” 
“ Are there any races of wild dogs exist¬ 
ing now, aunt?” asked Richard. 
“Yes, many which resemble the domestic 
dog more or less, such as the dhole of India, 
the dingo of Australia, and others, which 
we shall notice at a future time. There are 
also, in certain localities, races of dogs 
which have become wild from a state of 
domestication; and they are called Feral 
dogs. A very fine race of them exists, or 
did exist, in St. Domingo, which are very 
