LESSON XIX.
1. I think John has something new to tell us about his dog to-day. Let us listen to him.
2. I have looked at my dog’s eyes, and I find that the pupil is round, like mine, and it does not shut up into a streak, as in a cat.
3. The dog does not see so well in the night as a cat, but his sense of smell is much more keen.
4. My uncle has a pointer-dog named “Grouse,” and one day I went out with them to hunt quails.
5. Grouse would run all about until he smelled the birds, and then he would creep along a little way and stand still with his nose pointing forward.
6. My uncle would then come up with his gun, and, when he was ready, the dog would go slowly forward scaring the birds up, when uncle would shoot them.
7. In this picture we see a dog pointing quails among the reeds. The birds hear him, and are just ready to fly.
8. A dog will follow the track of his master for a long distance, and hounds will follow the track of a wolf or a fox or a bear, so that the hunter can come up with it and kill it.
9. Rover is a good watch-dog, and, if he hears or smells any body about in the night, he makes a great racket.
10. He knows, too, where the other animals belong, and, if a cow or a pig gets into the garden or yard, he goes and drives it out.