"
"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.
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