THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOGS. 
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content myself for the present with transcribing 
an °ther passage from my journal of a few days later. 
January 25, Wednesday.—The mouse-colored dogs, 
10 lea Jers of my Newfoundland team, have for the 
past fortnight been nursed like babies. No one can 
the decks by lamplight. 
belo ° W anxiousl y I watch them. They are kept 
th • 5 ^ en ^ e< ^’ ted, cleansed, caressed, and doctored, to 
jp lri ^ n ite discomfort of all hands. To-day I give up 
J aSt sav ’ n S them. Their disease is as 
^ Cental as in the case of any human being. 
TU01 e material functions of the poor brutes go on 
° u t interruption : they eat voraciously, retain their 
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