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inexperienced should compreliend and fall in 

 with the plans of the more intelligent veterans. 

 The same ancestral habits and tendencies render 

 him helpful as a sporting dog, and in herding 

 or driving sheep or cattle. This last employ- 

 ment is very much like a mild kind of hunting, 

 under certain special rules and restrictions, and 

 with the killing left out. It has been observed 

 that the Indian dholes will patiently and slowly 

 drive wild animals in the direction of their habi- 

 tat during' their breedingf season before killing 

 them, so as to have the meat close at home ; 

 and this could only be accomplished by the whole 

 pack exercising a patient self-control, and by 

 the leaders constantly keeping in check the fierce 

 impulse of the younger members to rush in and 

 kill the weary and bewildered quarry. 



The peaceable disposition and readiness to 

 submit to discipline are also tribal virtues of 

 which we take advantage. The dog, when he 

 slinks away with drooping tail if reproved, or 

 rolls abjectly over on his back and lies, paws 

 upwards, a picture of complete submission, is 

 still behaving to his master as his wild fore- 

 father did to the magisterial leaders of the troop, 

 or a victorious foe of his own species. 



