Magazine of Natural History Volume 7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...Holland he is fastened in pairs to a small waggon in Canada to carts, see VI. 511.1 and draws vegetables and other light substances to the market. In Amsterdam there are regular dog ordinaries, where, as soon as he is unharnessed after his journey, he receives a small coin from his master, which he takes in his mouth to a well known establishment of this kind, and in exchange for his money is provided with a certain portion of meat. And in many country places lie is taught to turn the spit and roast the meat, by continued exercise in a kind of tread wheel. " But as a dog that turns the spit Bestirs himself, and plies his feet To climb the wheel; but all in vain, His own weight brings him back again, And still he 's in the self-same place Where, at his setting out, he was." ffudibrat. According to Horace, the sight of a bitch with young was considered as an unlucky omen; and of a sullen discontented erson we say, that the black dog has walked over him. A certain German empiric, when his patient was surfeited by eating too much hare, directed him, upon the principles of antipathy and contrast, to take greyhound broth. And at llie time when the place of resort for recreation to the citizens of London was at the sign of the Dog and Duck, a learned traveller, in portraying the manners of the British capital, relates that the inhabitants flocked to a certain place of entertainment to feed on dog and duck. Although in China and Tartary his flesh is used for food, and a living dog is said to be better than a dead lion, in Europe, his carcass is considered so utterly worthless, that even his skin is now of little value. The skins, however, of young puppies were formerly tanned, and formed a soft kind of leather which was manufactured into gloves. The hair...