64 POPULAR SCBIPTURE ZOOLOGY.

when, to their astonishment, they found the usually savage
animal licking the woman, as if to console her, and, instead
of rushing upon them, evinced the most lively joy that they
had come to succour her. No species of this third division
are ever found in a wild state.

The dog is considered old at fifteen, and few attain the
age of twenty, A small terrier was given to the author's
family, ‘as being too aged for use, and said to be seventeen ;
at all events, she had lost most of her teeth, and her hair
was turning grey; but “Fan” so attached herself to the
family, and particularly to one member of it, who was then
an invalid, and so endeared herself by her intelligence and
extreme affection, that every care was taken of her, and she
lived eight years after her introduction into the family,
when her sufferings from a bad cough made it necessary to
have her destroyed, to the great regret of her friends; for
“poor old Fan” was a universal favourite. Her bright
black-and-tan coat was thickly besprinkled with grey, and
her head nearly white some years before she died.

The English reader of the Bible is often surprised at the
contemptuous manner in which these interesting and af-
fectionate animals are mentioned in the Sacred Writings ;
but the disposition of the dog, as known to us, is in a great