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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume II, Issue 208, 26 September 1874, Page 2

Does it not often strike one that dogs supply the outlines of half the faces we know? Here a bulldog—the small eyes closed under the brows, the smooth bullet forehead, the heavy jaw and snub nose, are all essentially bull dog. There the mastiff with the double bass voice, and the square hanging jaw; and the greyhounds, lean in rib and sharp of face ; and the terrier, with a snarl in his voice and a kind of restlessness in his eye, as if mentally worrying a rat; and the noble old Newfoundland dog, who is chivalrous to women and gentle to children, and who repels petty annoyances with a grand patience that is veritably heroic. Then we have horse-faced men, and the sheepfaced man with his forehead retreating from his long, energetic nose; smoothfaced man without whiskers, and with shining hair cut close : the lion man ; and the tiger’s, like an inverted pyramid ; and the giraffe’s lengthy unhelpfulness ; and the sharp, red face of the fox. Don’t we meet men like these; and if we know’ any such intimately, don't we find that their characters correspond somewhat with their persons P