dogs: ancient and modern. 



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as possible the different emotions by which he is actuated. We 

 can easily conceive that the altered conditions of life in which 

 the domestic dog would exist, as compared with the habits of a 

 wild dog, would lead to much greater exercise of the tail, which 

 in consequence would become strengthened, gradually recurved, 

 and eventually would be carried permanently in the position in 

 which it had come to be so frequently placed. 



Now it will be noticed that the earliest known dog within 

 historic times, to which I have referred (Fig. 1), and which is 

 sometimes depicted as a house-dog attached to the chair of its 



Fig. 2.— Egyptian Hound, B.C. 3700. (Birch, I.e.). 



master, had upright ears, like a wild dog, but a recurved tail, like 

 a domestic one ; a circumstance which seems to indicate not only 

 a relationship to some wild prototype, but also domestication for 

 some considerable time before the date of the monument on which 

 it is depicted. 



On the same " Tablet of Antefaa II." deciphered by Dr. Birch, 

 three other forms of dog are sculptured — or at least two, for two 

 out of the four figures ajDpear to resemble each other very closely. 

 One is a hound with pendent ears and recurved tail (Fig. 2) ; 

 another is a longer-headed, sharper-nosed dog, like a Greyhound, 



