as a dog-collar--the
collar of a medium-sized dog, perhaps a spaniel or terrier. There was a
plate on it, which, with a little rubbing, we made to read, "David
Atherton, Newcastle." How very strange! Had the little fellow been
washed overboard from some vessel? or had he swum off some neighbouring
beach to bring a stick for his master?

We could never discover any antecedents of any kind whatever to that
mysterious sequel to "The Romance of the Poor Young Dog." Was there a
fond master mourning for him in Newcastle, England, or in Newcastle,
Pennsylvania? Alas, poor dog! thou wert hastily snatched from this
world--the ocean thy grave and a shark's belly thy coffin. Thy collar
hangs, as I write this, over my study table, and many a time has my old
Ponto sniffed at that relic of a fellow-dog, and his eyes grown moist as
I repeated to him my surmises of the sad fate of David Atherton's
companion.

Mr Clare told us a good deal about sharks. Of the many varieties, the
most hideous is the Wolf-fish, (_Anarrhicas lupus_). Though much
smaller than the white shark, he is a very formidable creature. He has
six rows of grinders in each jaw, excellently adapted for bruising the
crabs, lobsters, scallops, and large whelks, which the voracious animal
grinds to pieces, and swallows along with the shells. When caught, it
fastens with indiscriminate rage upon anything within its reach, fights
desperately, even when out of the water, and inflicts severe wounds if
not avoided cautiously. Schonfeld relates this wolf-fish will seize on
an anchor and leave the marks of its teeth in it, and Steller mentions
one on the coast of Kamschatka, which he saw lay hold of a cutlass, with
which a man was attempting to kill it, and break it to bits as if it had
been made of glass. This monster is, from its great size, one of the
most formidable denizens of the ocean; in the British waters it attains
the length of six or seven feet, and is said to be much larger in the
more Northern seas. It usually frequents the deep parts of the sea, but
comes among the marine plants of the coast in spring, to deposit its
spawn. It swims rather slowly, and glides along with somewhat of the
motion of an eel.

The white shark is far more dreadful, from its gigantic size and
strength; its jaws are also furnished with from three to six rows of
strong, flat, triangular, sharp-pointed, and finely serrated teeth,
which it can raise or depress at will.

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