DOG. 
ward over the fame ground : on 'corning to crofs 
ways, flops and looks back : very docil: will find 
out what is dro.pt: watchfull by night: anounces 
the coming of Grangers : guards any goods com¬ 
mitted to its charge: drives cattle home from the 
field: keeps herds and flocks within bounds: pro¬ 
tects them from wild beafls : points out to the 
fportfman the game, by virtue of its acute fenfe of 
fmelling : brings the birds that are fhot to its ma¬ 
iler : will turn a ipit: at Bruffels and in Holland 
draws little carts* to the' herb market: in Siberia 
draws a fledge with its mafler in it, or loaden with 
proviflons : fits up and begs *: when it has com- 
mitted a theft (links away with its tail between its 
legs : eats envioufly with oblique eyes: is mafler 
among its fellows : enemy to beggars : attacks flran- 
gers without provocation : fond of licking wounds : 
cures the gout and cancers: howls at certain notes 
in muflck, and often urines on hearing them : bites 
at a flone flung at it: is fick at the approach of 
bad weather : gives itfelf a vomit by eating grafs : 
is afflicted with tape-worms: fpreads its mad- 
nefs : grows blind with age : fiepe gonnorhrea infeMus: 
driven as unclean from the houfes of the Maho¬ 
metans j yet the fame people eflablifh hofpitals for 
them, and allow them a daily dole of food : eats 
flefh, carrion, farinaceous vegetables not greens : 
fond of rolling in carrion: dungs on a flone; its 
dung the greateft of Septics: drinks by lapping : 
makes water fide-ways, with its leg held up ; very 
* The French Academicians record a marvellous tale of a dog 
that could J'peak and call for tea, coffee and chocolate. 
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