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DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 



man has been discovered he has had extensive packs of dogs, 

 certainly if wolves of any kind were found in that part of 

 the world. 1 



The dog was easily tamed, but he was fleeter of foot than 

 man, his master, and both game and dogs were almost certain 

 to be soon lost in the distance, leaving the master to come be- 

 hind and take what was left after the death. Accordingly the 

 horse must have early appealed to the primitive hunter on 

 account of his fleetness. 2 With his horse and his dog and his 



Fig. 5. Head of the collie and of the coyote. Note similarity in outline and 



general effect 



weapons, however, the man was match for anything that roamed 

 the forest or the plain, and with them he has established and 

 made good his claim as lord of all creation. 



Need for additional food. But all this was still harder upon 

 the hunted, and game was rapidly killed off or driven away, till 

 many a time the hunter returned empty-handed. Then it was 

 that a few nuts or seeds gathered by the women brought grate- 

 ful relief from what would otherwise have been distressing fast, 



1 Reference has already been made to the fact that our American Indians 

 had made dogs out of the coyote or wild wolf of the prairie. 



2 As late as the times of the Old Testament, even the wild ass is frequently 

 alluded to as a symbol of swiftness. This is especially true in Job and the 

 prophets, having reference, probably, to the Syrian wild ass figured in the 

 Ninevite sculptures. 



