16 SAVAGE SURVIVALS 



thing and looks steadily in the direction of what 

 it has found. We call it the pointer. 



The Dog Family is a group of flesh-eating an- 

 imals. It includes the wolves, foxes, jackals, and 

 domesticated dogs. They all feed on the flesh and 

 Mood of other animals. 



The wild dogs, that is, the wolves, foxes, and 

 jackals, are by nature fierce, suspicious, and 

 treacherous. And, whether the domesticated dog 

 has been derived from one species of wolf or from 

 several, or from the jackal, or from some species 

 of wild dog now extinct, its nature must have been 

 originally that of the Dog Family in general, that 

 is, fierce, suspicious, and treacherous. 



The dog has been completely revolutionized in 

 its nature since its domestication. It is now the 

 most devoted, affectionate, and trustful being in 

 the world. It has been said that the dog is the 

 only being that loves you more than he loves him- 

 self. The collie watches after and protects and 

 loves the very beings which its ancestors fed upon. 

 No finer instance of devotion has ever been known 

 in this world than that of Grey Friar's Bobby, a 

 dog which slept on his master's grave for twelve 

 years, until he died. A memorial has been erected 

 to this remarkable animal in the city of Edin- 

 burgh, where he lived. 



It is probably not saying too much that the dog, 

 since its domestication back somewhere in the dis- 

 tant centuries, has made greater progress in in- 

 telligence and civilization than any other animal 



