COL, MALCOLM'S WEST HIGHLAND WHITE SONNY AND SARAH
Miss E. MCCHEANE'S SKYE TERRIERS, CH. FAIRFIELD DIAMOND AND CH. WOLVERLEY CHUMMIE Toy DOGS
MISS STEVENS' TYPICAL JAPANESE PUPPY ... ... 288
MRS. VALE NICOLAS'S POMERANIAN, CH. THE SABLE
MITE ... ... ... ... 288 Miss M. A. BLAND'S POMERANIAN, CH. MARLAND KING 288 LADY HULTON'S BLENHEIM, CH. JOY ... ... 288
THE HON. MRS. LYTTON'S KING CHARLES, CH.
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1. MRS. GRESHAM'S PUG, CH.
2. MRS. T. WHALEY'S BRUSSELS
SPORT ... ... ... ...
PEKINESE, CH. CHU-ERH OF ALDERBOURNE
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GRINDLEY KING 304 GRIFFON, GLENARTNEY
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DOGS AND ALL ABOUT THEM
CHAPTER I
GENERAL HISTORY OF THE DOG
THERE is no incongruity in the idea that in the very earliest period of man's habitation of this world he made a friend and companion of some sort of aboriginal representative of our modern dog, and that in return for its aid in protecting him from wilder animals, and in guarding his sheep and goats, he gave it a share of his food, a corner in his dwelling, and grew to trust it and care for it. Probably the animal was originally little else than an unusually gentle jackal, or an ailing wolf driven by its companions from the wild marauding pack to seek shelter in alien surroundings. One can well conceive the possibility of the partnership beginning in the circumstance of some helpless whelps being brought home by the early hunters to be tended and reared by the women and children. The present-day savage of New Guinea and mid-Africa does not, as a rule, take the trouble to tame and train an adult wild animal for his own purposes, and primitive man was surely equally indifferent to the questionable advantage of harbouring a dangerous guest. But a litter of woolly whelps introduced into the home as playthings for the children would grow to regard themselves, and be regarded, as members of the family, and it would soon be found that the hunting instincts of the maturing animal were of value to his captors. The savage master, treading the primeval forests in search of food, would not fail to recognise the helpfulness of a keener nose and sharper eyes even than his own unsullied senses, while the dog in his turn would
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