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Fig. 1157. Greyhound 



very wide distribution of the family (Canida) to which such crea- 

 tures belong lends probability to this view. We have already 



Fig. 1158. Dachshund 



seen (p. 217) that it was the first animal tamed by Man. At a 

 much later period, the monuments of Assyria and Egypt afford 



