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much attached to the members of the house to which they belong , but f1 equent] y cherish a Class antipathy to a stranger, or to those who wantonly fling sticks or stones at them. They will neither attack n01 fight a * dog of inferior size, but growl at snarling curs, and throw them to a side. They suffer cats to play with, and even to lie and sleep on the top of them. They are great enemies to sheep, which they never hesitateflto _ kill, but pa1 take only of the blood. When hungry, they will not seluple to steal a fowl, salmon, 01 piece of meat; yet they will watch a carcass of beef 01 mutton belonging to their maste1 8, keep off 0the1 dogs, and never touch it themselves.

They fight courageously With dogs of their own size and strength, and will start immediately on

hearing other dogs fight, to restore peace among

them. So sagacious, indeed, are these animals, that "

they only seem to want the faculty of speech to make . them fully understood; and they are capable of being - ' trained to all the purposes for which almost every other variety of the canine species we used.