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There is, however, another allusion in the Sacred 

 Writings to the domesticated dog, I mean in the 

 Apocrypha, where in the Book of Tobit, chapter 5, verse 

 16, we are told that when Tobias and the angel were 

 setting out on their journey, " They went forth both, and 

 the young man's dog with them." 



It is certain that the Egyptians selected their dogs so as 

 to produce well-marked varieties, for there are to be seen 

 on the Egyptian temples representations of dogs with 

 long ears and broad muzzles. The Assyrians, too, had 

 considerably advanced in the breeding of dogs, for mastiffs 

 and a kind of greyhound are found represented on their 

 tombs. The ancient Greeks and Romans, as is well 

 known, possessed dogs. Homer frequently alludes to 

 them. 



But more ancient than any of these records are the 

 evidences which prove the existence of the domestic dog 

 among the prehistoric savages of Northern Europe. 



In the Danish " Kitchen middens " or heaps of house- 

 hold refuse piled up by men of the newer stone period, 

 are found bone cuttings belonging to some species of the 

 genus Canis. Together with these remains are some of 

 the long bones of birds, all the other bones of the said 

 birds being absent. Now it is known that the bird bones 

 here found are the very ones which dogs cannot well 

 devour, while the absent ones are those which they can 

 bolt with ease, and it has been ingeniously argued from 

 this that the remains in question really belong to the 

 domesticated dog, as if the animals to which they apper- 

 tained had been wolves, they would have made short work 

 of the long bones of the birds as well as of the others. 

 Other dog bones are found in Denmark belonging to later 

 periods. At the time when flint knives were succeeded 

 by bronze a large dog existed, and at the time when iron 

 was used a larger one still. In Switzerland during the 



