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The wild dog, as existing in considerable numbers or communities, seems to be nearly extirpated in the southern parts of Europe; but there are several cases on record of dogs, having assumed the character of the wild race from which they had descended, abandoning their state of domestication, and reasserting their native independence. A black greyhound bitch, belonging to a gentleman in Scarisbrick, in Lancashire, though