. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. — to a complete obliteration of color (albino- ism) ; this is accompanied by the appearance of red e)'es and a \-ery injurious blunting of certain organs, or else by a delay in their development. The conformation of the dog presents as great a variety as his coat and his color. Here. Ri:sT AND Play again we must ne\'er lose sight of the purposes for which the different species are employed. It is important, therefore, to have seen dogs at their w
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. — to a complete obliteration of color (albino- ism) ; this is accompanied by the appearance of red e)'es and a \-ery injurious blunting of certain organs, or else by a delay in their development. The conformation of the dog presents as great a variety as his coat and his color. Here. Ri:sT AND Play again we must ne\'er lose sight of the purposes for which the different species are employed. It is important, therefore, to have seen dogs at their work and in their element. Then, and then onl)', does the external beauty of each breed show itself fully. IV. General CHARACTERisrics; Special Habits It is C|uite possible that dogs now and then malign one another v.'hen alone by themselves, but as long as their language is incompre- hensible to us we ha\'e onl)- good things to say of their chief characteristics. Their fidelity is proverbial. Hundreds of instances could be given in which dogs will not quit the dead bodies of their masters, but seek — positivel)' sre/r — death upon their graves. As for their xigilance we could cite not hundretls, but thousands of cases in which Digitized by IVIicrosoft®. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed. Boston, Ginn & Company
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