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after the latter, and the physical relation of the 

 sexes pertain more to the hyena than the dog. 

 The wild dog of South America is unquestion- 

 ably a cross between the wolf and some domestic 

 or semi-domestic breed of dog which escaped into 

 the wilds. The dingo of Australia is a pure dog, 

 but a reversion to type, conspicuous in the un- 

 failing stand-up ears of the wolf or the jackal. 

 The wild dog of India is probably a direct 

 descendant of the jackal, and the classification 

 of him under " canidas " is sup^o-estive that at some 

 remote period he was in a sense domesticated 

 and utilised by the people of that time. Amongst 

 the artistic productions of the cave men of the 

 reindeer period there are no records of depic- 

 tions of the dog. Some twenty thousand years 

 later the Mycenacons (Mycenae, at one time capital 

 of Greece, and the birthplace of Mycensean art) 

 show the dog in the attitude of the flying gallop. 

 It is said that that style was followed by artists 

 of all nations, in depicting the horse galloping, 

 right up to the time when instantaneous photo- 

 graphy demonstrated the erroneousness, not to 

 say the impossibility, of that particular pose. 

 Thus it seems that only about five thousand 

 years ago dogs were first mentioned in Europe 

 as companions to mankind. 



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