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more sympathetic with other Hfe the animal is likely to 

 become. Thus the elephants, whose natural endowments in 

 the way of intelligence are perhaps superior to those of any 

 other wild creatures, are, when brought into captivity, curi- 

 ously prone to form attachments to human beings. Savages 

 appear to make but little use of their dogs in hunting. In 

 fact, those peculiar combinations of instinct and training 



Spaniel Retrieving Wild Duck 



which we find in our hounds, pointers, setters, and other dogs 

 which have been bred to serve the purposes of sportsmen, 

 have been acquired but slowly, and are of no value except 

 where the search for game is carried on under what we may 

 term civilized conditions. The dog of the savage is in all 

 countries much like his master — a creature with few arts and 

 unaccustomed to subdue his rude native impulses. 



It seems most likely that for ages the principal use of the 



