WILD DOGS. 93 



in terror of the invader, to a comer of the room. The fox 

 was taken aKve." 



The Arotio The Arctic Fox which is of a beautiful white 

 ^o^- colour is found, according to Captain James Ross, 

 in the highest northern latitudes, even in the winter. In the 

 late autumn the younger generation make their way south 

 and congregate in the neighbourhood of Hudson's Bay, 

 returning north in the early spring of the following year. They 

 are gregarious, living in companies in burrows in sandy places. 



Wild Dogs. Wild dogs abound in various parts of the world, 

 of which the Dingos of Australia, the Dholes of India and 

 the Aguaras of South America are examples. The wild dogs 

 of the East are familiar to all readers of Eastern travels. A 

 writer in the Times newspaper describes the dogs of Con- 

 stantinople, as "omnipresent, lawless, yet perfectly harmless 

 dogs," which perform valuable but ill requited service as 

 scavengers of the city. He says: — "In shape, in counte- 

 nance, in language, in their bandy legs, pointed noses, pricked 

 up ears, dirty yellow coats, and bushy tails, they could be 

 hunted as foxes in Gloucestershire. They are," he continues, 

 "up and doing from sunset to sunrise, and enjoy the refresh- 

 ment of weU-eamed, profound sleep almost throughout the 

 day. They are not only homeless and masterless but have 

 also a sovereign contempt for bed or shelter. There is a time 

 it would seem, when sleep comes upon them — all of them — 

 like sudden death; when all squat down, coil themselves up, 

 nose to tail, wherever they chance to be— on the footpath, 

 in the carriage way, in the gutter — and there lie in the 

 sunshine, in the pelting rain, yellow bundles, hardly distin- 

 guishable from the mud. The Constantinople dog never 

 learns to wag his tail; he never makes up, never looks up 

 to a human being, never encourages or even notices men's 

 advances. He is not exactly sullen, or cowed, or mistrust- 

 ful; he is simply cold and distant as an Englishman is said 

 to be when not introduced." 



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