. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . eir game, for one ofthem to return home, and by its restless solicitations to inducesome person to follow him to fetch the booty; while the othersremain on the spot to guard it from predatory animals, content-ing themselves by licking the blood, and waiting for the entrailsas their share of the feast. Peron declares that the English seal-hunters on the South Seas had dogs which performed an equallysagacious part. Azara saw dogs in Paraguay which
. Peter Parley's kaleidoscope : or, Parlor pleasure book : consisting of gleanings from many fields of the curious, the beautiful, and the wonderful . eir game, for one ofthem to return home, and by its restless solicitations to inducesome person to follow him to fetch the booty; while the othersremain on the spot to guard it from predatory animals, content-ing themselves by licking the blood, and waiting for the entrailsas their share of the feast. Peron declares that the English seal-hunters on the South Seas had dogs which performed an equallysagacious part. Azara saw dogs in Paraguay which did the dutyof herdsmen, driving out the flocks of sheep and goats to theirpastures, attending, and defending them all day, and driving themhome in the evening. It would be easy to deduce many more examples of the powersof training, and of the facilities of acquirement in animals, butthe subject is almost too familiar, and proofs surround us on everyside illustrative of the benefits we receive, of the services we gain,and of the pleasures we enjoy, by our associations with the animalworld, of which even the most unthinking must be !»—=«£. - A ROM VN WO MAS. CITIES OF ITALY. /^>)HE more renowned cities of Italy are not only strikingly2 different from those places in this country called cities. but they are, in certain respects, different from all theother cities of the world. Some are peculiar from local circum-stances, and all arc marked by antiquity ; most are representativesof ages gone by, preserving alike, remnants of past history andmanners and customs which have faded away. All are filled withboundless treasures of art; all present mournful contrasts betweenpast glory and present decay. To an American, they are so [420] ROME. 421 distinct from anything and every tiling he has been accustomed toassociate with the idea of cities, as to be subjects of startlinginterest and untiring curiosity. How different is Rome fromNew York! the one living only in t
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