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THE
GREYHOUND OF BOLOGNA.
jS SMALL Italian greyhound in Bologna,
S which used at nights to have a kind of
jacket put on to protect him from the cold,
went out generally very early in the morning
to a neighbouring house to visit another do^ of
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the same breed which lived there. He always
endeavoured, by various coaxing gestures, to
prevail upon the people of the house to take ofl
his night-jacket, in order that he might play
more at ease with hts companion. It once
happened, when he could not get any one to do
him this service, that he found means, by various
contortions of his body, rubbing himself against
tables and chairs* and working with his limbs, to
undress himself without any assistance. After
