I02 PETS 



pets are native traits in human character, and 

 universal among savages. 



The savage hunter brought kittens and 

 puppies into camp to be the playthings of his 

 wife and children, and from these pets descend 

 the whole of our cats and dogs. And in the 

 tribal captures at the corralls were all sorts of 

 young animals claimed by the women and 

 children because they were not worth killing. 

 These ponies, cattle, deer, sheep, goats and 

 antelope grew up with human kind, glad to get 

 shelter from the wolves at night, allowed to 

 graze in safet}^ outside the camp by day. If 

 the}^ proved useful the men were tolerant. 

 The useful kinds were even protected at grass 

 by boys told off as herders, to run them into 

 camp at the first sign of danger. 



The mother who ran dr}^ of milk, saw foals 

 getting milk from the mares, and would have 

 mare's milk for her child. The mares who 

 gave most milk were preferred to others. 

 From this came the natural idea of breeding 

 from good milch mares to improve the strain, 

 and get a larger yield. And thus the use and 

 value grew of mare's milk with its many prepa- 

 rations as a staple food for children, then of 

 grown-ups, until the practice of herding tame 

 horse stock became general among the hordes 



