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Fig. 1157.—Greyhound 
very wide distribution of the family (Caszde) 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 
