Chews Tobacco Like a Man.
A friend has just related to us a curious fact in natural history respecting a dog. In North Attleboro, Mass. there is kept, in a manufacturing establishment, a large mastiff, who takes as much comfort with a quid of tobacco, as does the most inveterate lover of the weed. So habituated has he become to its use, that he must have it, and will sit all day in the center of the workshop, chewing away with great appetite and good relish. He became thus much like a man, by playing, when young, with “old sogens,” as the end of cigars are professionally fermed. In such play he would occasionally find a “soger in his mouth, until at length a taste was formed for the tobacco, which has since continued to increase, and now he is what he is. We believe this is the only instance on record” of any animal but man, and one species of worm, using the weed from pure love of it.-Boston Cabinet.
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