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SAVAGE SURVIVALS 



pulled back into the foot and then extended. These 

 movements are made by muscles which no doubt 

 get uneasy and * Hired'' from long idleness, just 

 as we get * Hired" or un^easy on rainy days some- 

 times when we are kept indoors all day. When 

 the cat scratches a tree it is exercising muscles 

 which in its ancestors were used daily in hunting 



•EXERCISING UNUSED MUSCLES' 



and tree climbing, but which are, to some extent, 

 vestigial in domesticated cats. 



There is one difference between the psychology 

 of the dog and that of the cat which may be men- 

 tioned here. 



It is the nature of the dog to become attached 

 to persons. When the family moves, the dog 

 moves too. The dog's home is where his master 

 is. The dog will follow a handful of rags wrapped 

 around a beggar, day after day, thru heat and 

 cold and starvation, as cheerfully as he will fol- 

 low a king. The devotion of the dog to man is one 

 of the divinest things in this world. And there 



