DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 15 



help him manage his half-wild herds. The fact 

 that the bull-dog, when it has anything to do with 

 cattle, goes to their head and tries to get hold of 

 their nose and pull them down, seems to bear out 

 this theory. The collie tends to go to the rear and 

 drive, rather than in front to head off. The bull- 

 dog is passing away, because its purpose has been 

 served. 



The bull-terrier is a degenerate of the bull-dog. 

 Its use as a household pet and companion is not a 

 compliment to human taste. It is not to be com- 

 pared with the fox-terrier in sprightliness, beauty, 

 or intelligence. 



The turn-spit has short legs and a small body, 

 and was common in kitchens before the introduc- 

 tion of modern machinery. It was the motor of 

 the tread-mill. Man was pretty short on power 

 before he hitched up steam and electricity, and so 

 he developed the turn-spit to do odd jobs for him 

 in the kitchen, just as he developed the hound to 

 catch things for him that were too fleet-footed for 

 him to catch. 



Pointers and setters have been developed in the 

 last 150 or 200 years. The pointing practice is 

 probably the exaggerated pause of the dog before 

 springing. When a dog comes upon anything sud- 

 denly, it always pauses a moment for inspection 

 before going on. By selecting for breeding pur- 

 poses those dogs that paused the longest, a kind 

 of dog has been developed that doesn't go on at 

 all, but stands perfectly still when it finds some- 



