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82 enjoys to walk out with its master: it listens for his footstep, it whines in his absence, and it greets his return. Fidelity, courage, and intelligence are its attributes. It is the only animal which, from a spontaneous impulse, allies itself to the human race, shares with equal devotion the cottage of the peasant and the palace of the noble; and claims a return of the attachment it manifests, a return which every well-ordered mind will willingly accord.”

The varieties of the domestic Dog are very numerous, and, as crosses of breeds comparatively pure are continually taking place, the production of mongrel-races becomes endless. Many attempts to classify the various known breeds have been made, of which we give one of the most recent, by the zoologist last quoted; which is curious, at least, as an enumeration of the well-marked varieties. Mr. Martin excludes the Dingo of Australia, and what he considers as “the true wild Dogs of India.”