(1) Certainly, no dog, however currishly inclined, can with the least justice bark the old bark of ‘echo‘against them.

(2) Notwithstanding his currishness and the cowardly ferocity which comes out with the night, there is something definite about him.

(3) All the viciousness and currishness seem to have been weeded out of him; he seldom quarrels, or fights, or plays, like other dogs.