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raising has been almost given up, because of the large 

 number of dogs kept by negroes and poor white people. 

 The affection of dogs for their masters is evidently the 

 reason why people who have little happiness in their 

 daily lives want at least to have the love of a dog. 



The watchdog that guards the house, the collie that 

 watches over, rounds up, and brings home the sheep, 

 the Newfoundland dog that will rescue a person from 

 the water without even being told, the St. Bernard dog 

 that will discover travelers buried under the snow and 

 carry them food and drink, the many small pet dogs 

 that amuse children and "grown-ups" in the household, 

 and the intelligent trick dogs of shows are known to all. 



The cat has been domesticated so long that we do 

 not know whence it came or what wild animal was its 

 ancestor. The ancient Egyptians had a great venera- 

 tion for cats, and we find vast numbers of them in the 

 Egyptian tombs, embalmed and buried like human 

 beings. Our common cats are much like these. But 

 there are not as many varieties of cats as there are of 

 dogs. The best known are the long-haired Angora, 

 the slate-gray Persian cat, and the almost tailless 

 Manx cat, from the Isle of Man, England. 



The Angora cat is by far the gentlest of the entire cat 

 tribe, which includes not only the common wild-cat or 

 catamount, but also the lion, tiger, leopard, our moun- 

 tain lion or puma, and many others. On the whole 

 they are the most dangerous group of the wild animals. 



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