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animates the dog, and produces the most boisterous ebullitions 
of joy. It is the anticipation of the pleasure he shall derive 
from the return of his master, that makes the dog stand hour 
after hour, watching for his appearance: here imagination pre¬ 
sents the pleasure that will attend his return. 
So far as we are able to ascertain the workings of their mind, 
there is a very important difference in the faculty of imagination 
in the human being and the brute. In them it is exerted solely 
on their present and future sensations : it has reference to some 
expected pleasure, or pain. In our minds it takes a wider 
range. Self is forgotten: it concerns itself with strange and 
sublime or fanciful theories. The mind is in search after truth, 
and often enabled to grasp it, although as frequently left to 
wander in error. This is one of the instances in which we are 
superior to the brutes that perish; but, after all, it is a difference 
more of degree than of kind. We shall return to this subject 
hereafter. 
Our readers will not forget that the Annual Dinner of the 
Veterinary Club will take place on Thursday, the 10th instant, 
at the King’s Arms Tavern, Bridge Street, Westminster, at 
five o’clock precisely. The members wiil be most happy to see 
their professional brethren from far or near, but request that the 
gentlemen, who intend to honour them with their presence, will 
favour the Secretary with an intimation of the same, on or before 
the 8th instant, directed to him at the King’s Arms Tavern. 
Sporting IBrpartmrnt. 
STEEPLE CHASES. 
As these chases were connected with those which were recorded 
in our last number, we insert an account of them ; but in future, 
except under particular circumstances, we shall not notice these 
break-neck exhibitions. This was a sweepstakes of twenty-five 
sovereigns each; and was run on Monday, April the 2d. 
