THE OX.Of the quadrupedal animals, the flesh of those that feed upon herbs is the most wholesome and nutritious for human food.

It is also supplied with lungs, and two auricles and two ventricles to the heart; all of which bring it still closer into an alliance with the quadrupedal species of the animal kingdom.

Well fare the soul of unfastidious Vincent Bourne, most classical, and at the same time, most English, of the Latinists!who has treated of this human and quadrupedal alliance, this dog and man friendship, in the sweetest of his poems, the Epitaphium in Canem, or, Dog's Epitaph.

The Poodle is exceptionally sensitive, and is far more efficiently taught when treated as a sensible being rather than as a mere quadrupedal automaton.