WILD DOGS. 
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and when he announced on his return that 
Jack had mastered the difficult rule, she 
took pains to show by her manner that she 
considered it a matter of the least possible 
consequence. 
“ What are we going to talk about this 
evening?” asked Sidney, as they took their 
places for the evening’s lecture. 
“The next on our list, properly speaking, 
are the different races of what are com¬ 
monly called wild dogs,” replied Miss Win¬ 
ston ; “ but, as little comparatively is known 
of them, we shall pass over them rapidly 
and come to the jackals, foxes and hyenas, 
which last form the concluding group in 
the canine family. Of the wild dogs there 
seem to be many varieties, all bearing a small 
resemblance to each other, and readily re¬ 
ferable to the same class of animals. They 
are all reddish in colour, which occasions 
them to be classed together under the 
general name of red dogs; they want the 
second cheek-tooth in the lower jaw, the 
soles of their feet are hairy, and the eyes 
placed more or less obliquely, with round 
pupils. They do not burrow, but live 
very retired in jungles and forests, and 
