right well. Such a big cat would be worth having."

"The French are very humane to animals, and never inflict
unnecessary pain upon the meanest. In the street in which I lived in
Paris, there was a hospital for cats and dogs."

"Is not a hospital a place where sick folks go to be cured, Mother;
and do they like to have dogs and cats there?"

"This was a hospital devoted to sick cats and dogs."

"Do they have cats and dogs for nurses?" said Harry, giggling as he
spoke.

"I never heard they did, you little goose. But I could not help
being pleased with such an evidence of the kind-heartedness of a
people in their treatment of animals."

"Mother," said Frank, "where did dogs and cats come from? Have men
always had them living with them? Did Adam and Eve have a dog and
cat, do you suppose? Was there an Adam and Eve cat and dog?"

"It would take more knowledge than I can boast of, Frank, to answer
these questions. I will tell you all I have been able to learn. It
is supposed by some persons that the domestic dog is the descendant,
that is, the great great great grandchild of a wolf."

A man who wanted to see if a wolf could be gentle, and faithful, and
loving as a dog, took a baby wolf, treated him with the greatest
kindness, and fed him on food that would not make him savage.

The wolf was always gentle, and much attached to his master. If the
sons and sons' sons of the wolf were always treated in the same
manner, you may suppose it possible that, in time, they would be as
loving and good as our dogs.

There seems, however, to be more reason to think that our domestic
dog is descended from a wild dog; as there are wild dogs in various
parts of the world; in Africa, Australia, and in India. The dog of
the Esquimaux was a wolf. There is a distinct kind of dog for almost
every part of the world, each sort differing in some things from the
wolf.

The earliest history of man speaks of his faithful companion, the
dog. Every schoolboy has read of the dog of Ulysses; and how, when
Ulysses returned, after a very long absence, so changed as not to be
recognized in his own house, his dog knew him immediately.

Cuvier, the great French naturalist, says that the "dog is the most
complete, the most remarkable, and the most useful conquest ever
made by man."

"Every species has become our property. Each individual is
altogether devoted to his master, assumes his manners, knows and
defends his goods, and remains attached