Even 1000 years after this period, the dog was highly esteemed in Egypt for its sagacity and other excellent qualities; for when Pythagoras, after his return from Egypt, founded a new sect in Greece, and at Croton in southern Italy, he taught, with the Egyptian philosophers, that at the death of the body the soul entered into that of various animals. After the death of any of his favourite disciples he would hold a dog to the mouth of the man in order to receive the departing spirit, saying that there was no animal which could perpetuate his virtues better than that quadruped. It was in order to preserve the Israelites from errors and follies of this kind, and to prevent the possibility of such idolatry being established, that the dog was afterwards regarded with utter abhorrence amongst the Jews, and this feeling prevailed during the continuance of the Israelites in Palestine.
Plate I.
| GREAT DANE. | SAINT BERNARD. |
| DALMATIAN. | MASTIFF. | OLD ENGLISH SHEEP DOG. |
| COLLIE. | CHOW. | NEWFOUNDLAND. |
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| POODLE. | BULL DOG. | FRENCH BULL DOG. | From “Country Life in America.” BOSTON TERRIER. |
| (From Photos by Bowden Bros.) TYPICAL NON-SPORTING DOGS. | |||
Plate II.
| ENGLISH SETTER. | POINTER. |
| IRISH SETTER. | LABRADOR RETRIEVER. |
| FLAT-COATED RETRIEVER. | IRISH WOLF-HOUND. |
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| IRISH TERRIER. | DACHSHUND. | ROUGH-COATED FOX TERRIER. | FIELD SPANIEL. |
| (From Photos by Bowden Bros.) TYPICAL SPORTING DOGS. | |||