EARLY DOGS 



the dog upon the Egyptian monuments show a decidedly wolf-like 

 animal (Fig. 2), with erect ears and a thin and apparently tapering 

 tail. Such a dog, though doubtless but a remove from the wolf or 

 the jackal, was at any rate common. This dog evidently gave 



FIG. 3. TERRIER-LIKE DOG OF THE 

 EGYPTIANS. 



FIG. 4. EGYPTIAN HOUND. 



place to a more compact-habited animal, not so long in head or in 

 body, though still with prick ears, but with what may be described 

 as a double-curled if fine tail (Fig. 3) and decidedly terrier-like. 



FIG. 5. EGYPTIAN HOUNDS IN A LEASH. 



As time went on, further changes were met with, as shown in 

 Figs. 4 and 5. It does not require a very vivid imagination to 

 conjure up the chief characteristics and work of these Egyptian 

 hounds, that were, as Fig. 5 suggests, employed to hunt the deer and 



