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XL.—OUR PARIS COREESPONDENT.
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i Pakis, May 18, 1863.
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Xl.—Our Paris Coreespondent.
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I Pakis, May 18, 1863.
i Pakis , May 18 , 1863 .
After disguising themselves , during the Carnival in the skins and p took lumes to of staring quadrupeds at the animals and bipeds they of imitated feathered . Last tribe and , the we the ek , Parisians and Exhi the
• week beforeCrockett ' s lions , Hermann ' s bears , Dog - bition were , all the rage in Paris . But the dogs above all were Parisians throughout in th general at period and the the obj Imperial ects of famil curiosit y in y and particular interest . to " The the
Prince Imperial , " as , the semi-official press would say , " deigned to visit them" and begged of the Emperor to allow him to grant- a
prize condescending of 500 , fr ; anc in s for short the , their best hound success . was The incredible Empress . was dense From not crowd less an
flocked early hour from in Paris the forenoon to the till Jardin five d in ' Acclimitasation the afiernoon _^ , where a the Dog Those who did there before midhad to
Show was held . go -day . which take their were places only allowe at the d end in by of twos a long to file the , the long component sheds , then parts con of
_cult _taining to 1 pass , 100 throug different h these species sheds of the as canine it was tribe last . summer It was to as diffi pass - before Messrs . Storr and Mortimer ' s jewel-case at the London
Exhibition . The enterprising visitor who entered them ran some no danger means of being of half ing suffocated ! till those in who the had crush the , from priorit which y in there entering was
escap passed the be imag crying out ined . of , The in the consequence irritation hounds , the of of the growling the aural bay of ing nerve the of s was bull the - great dogs blood , , - and liounds as may the ,
yelping of the terriers . But the irritation of the { olfactory ones great was so stretch great that of the at imag different ination places for it the would visitor not to have have required supposed a
himself on board a Channel packet-boat during the equinox . The Duke of Beaufort exhibited his celebrated pack of
foxwest hounds of , Fr which ance . a few Also weeks there earlier were a refused superb to pack hunt of wolves stag-hounds in the
put belong throug ing to h a Prince kind of Napoleon soldierly . exercise When I . saw They them executed they were this being dog few how
drill with a precision which raw recruits might envy . A - ever showed a tendency to yelp , when the figures which of their they drill
exetheir s cuted ergeant tendency becam was e comp no to protest sooner licated disp d and haute layed rapid voix than . But against the the poor the whip brutes treatment checke they d
received . The French wolf-hounds were superb animals , they are
said to be much more sagacious than the ordinary stag or fox
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/38/
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