. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . pre-historic times. Probably the animal wasoriginally little else than an unusuallygentle jackal, or an ailing wolf driven byits companions from the wild maraudingpack to seek shelter in alien can well conceive the possibility ofthe partnership beginning in the circum-stance of some helpless whelps being broughthome by the early hunters and being after-ward tended and reared by the women andchildr
. The new book of the dog : a comprehensive natural history of British dogs and their foreign relatives, with chapters on law, breeding, kennel management, and veterinary treatment . pre-historic times. Probably the animal wasoriginally little else than an unusuallygentle jackal, or an ailing wolf driven byits companions from the wild maraudingpack to seek shelter in alien can well conceive the possibility ofthe partnership beginning in the circum-stance of some helpless whelps being broughthome by the early hunters and being after-ward tended and reared by the women andchildren. The present-day savage of New THE NEW BOOK OF THE DOG. Guinea and mid-Africa does not, as a rule,take the trouble to tame and train an adultwild animal for his own purposes, andprimitive man was surely equally indifferentto the questionable advantage of harbour-ing a dangerous guest. But a litter ofwoolly whelps introduced into the homeas playthings for the children would growto regard themselves, and be regarded, asmembers of the family, and it would soonbe found that the hunting instincts of thematuring animal were of value to hiscaptors. The savage master, treading the. Danish Kitchen-middens, or heaps ofhousehold refuse, piled up by the men ofthe Newer Stone age—an age when theseNeolithic peoples used chipped or pol-ished flints instead of metal for theirweapons—are found bone remnants belong-ing to some species of the genus with these remains are some of thelong bones of birds, all the other bones ofthe birds being absent. Now it is knownthat there are certain bird bones—those ofthe legs and wings—which dogs cannotdevour, and it is just these which remain,while the absent ones areof the kind which any dogwill eat. The inferenceis that when the familymeal was finished thescraps were cast to thedogs, who ate what theycould. Other doe bones of PREHISTORIC ROCK TRACING REPRESENTING REINDEER,BOAT, MEN, AND DOGS. CUT IN THE QUARTZSKEE PARISH,
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