Wully 



The Story of a Yaller Dog 



Wully was a little yaller dog. A yaller 

 dog, be it understood, is not necessarily the 

 same as a yellow dog. He is not simply a 

 canine whose capillary covering is highly charged 

 with yellow pigment. He is the mongrelest 

 mixture of all mongrels, the least common mul- 

 tiple of all dogs, the breedless union of all 

 breeds, and though of no breed at all, he is yet 

 of older, better breed than any of his aristocratic 

 relations, for he is nature's attempt to restore 

 the ancestral jackal, the parent stock of all dogs. 



Indeed, the scientific name of the jackal 

 (Cam's aureus) means simply 'yellow dog,' 

 and not a few of that animal's characteristics are 

 seen in his domesticated representative. For the 

 plebeian cur is shrewd, active, and hardy, and 



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