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Quadrupeds. 
beasts, should never after fight with any inferior crea- 
ture.' " 
The following anecdote will show that the Mastiff, 
conscious of its superior strength, knows how to chastise 
the impertinence of an inferior : — A large Dog of this 
kind, belonging to a gentleman near Newcastle, being 
frequently molested by a mongrel, and teased by its con- 
tinual barking, at last took it up in his mouth, by the 
back, and, with great composure, dropped it over the 
quay into the river, without doing any further injury to 
an enemy so much its inferior. 
THE BULLDOG 
Is much less than the mastiff, but the fiercest of all the 
Dog kind, and is probably the most courageous creature 
in the world. His short neck adds to his strength. 
Those of a brindled colour are accounted the best of the 
kind : they will run at and seize the fiercest bull with- 
out barking, making directly at his head, sometimes 
catch hold of his nose, pin the animal to the ground, and 
make him roar in a most tremendous manner, nor can 
they without difficulty, be made to quit their hold. 
Whenever a Bull-dog attacks in any of the extremities 
of the body, it is invariably considered a mark of his 
degeneracy from the original purity of blood. 
Some years since, at a bull -baiting in the north of 
England, when this barbarous custom was very common, 
a young man, confident of the spirit of his Dog, laid 
a wager that he would, at separate times, cut off all the 
