250 THE LOG OF THE SUN 



Arctic scenes where night and day are as one to 

 this great seal-hunter. 



The dog has made man his god, — giving up his 

 life for his master would be but part of his way 

 of showing his love if he had it in his power to do 

 more. So, too, the dog has attempted to adapt 

 his speech to his master's, and the result is a bark. 

 Xo wild coyotes or wolves bark, but when bands 

 of dogs descended from domesticated animals run 

 wild, their howls are modulated and a certain un- 

 mistakable barking quality imparted. The drawn- 

 out howl of a great gray wolf is an impressive 

 sound and one never to be forgotten. Only the 

 fox seems to possess the ability to bark in its 

 native tongue. The sounds which the cats, great 

 and small, reproduce are most varied. Nothing 

 can be much more intimidating than the roar of a 

 lion, or more demoniacal than the arguments 

 which our house-pets carry on at night on garden 

 fences. 



"What use the sounds peculiar to sea-lions sub- 

 serve in their life on the great ocean, or their 

 haunts along the shore, can only be imagined, but 

 surely such laudable perseverance, day after day, 

 to out-utter each other, must be for some good 

 reason! 



Volumes have been written concerning the 

 voices of the two remaining groups of animals — - 

 monkeys and birds. In the great family of the 

 four-handed folk, more varieties of sound are pro- 



