CHAPTER XXVIII 



FARM ANIMALS (Continued) 



Dogs have been the companions of man from the 

 most ancient times of which we have knowledge. They 

 are shown in the carvings of ancient Egypt and Greece 

 and other ancient peoples. Of all the domestic animals 

 dogs have probably been developed into the greatest 

 number of widely different forms and sizes. So that 

 it is sometimes not easy to say exactly how we know 

 such unlike animals as a bulldog and a King Charles 

 spaniel both to be dogs; yet we all agree that they are 

 such. 



There are many kinds of wolves that so greatly re- 

 semble some dogs, that when tamed it is difficult to dis- 

 tinguish between them. Some gray collie dogs resemble 

 the grey wolves (particularly the coyote) so much that 

 they are liable to be shot as such by mistake. The 

 slender greyhound seems to have its wild ancestor in 

 the wolf of Tibet. The Eskimo sledge dogs are hard to 

 distinguish from the wolves of the Arctic regions. Many 

 large dogs are quite ready to turn back to the wolfish 

 habit of killing sheep, in company with other dogs or 

 even with wolves. In some of the Cotton States sheep 



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