The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-04
a DOG w QUO EoYPr.


al- " as AGAalN4l5 ana treated Like
man Being.
In Egypt the dog was a friend and
faithful servant he lived In the house
with his master followed him en- his
walks, attended the public ceremonies,
sometimes free, at other times held ia
leash by slave or child, or I'm princely
families by a favorite dwarf At mis-
meals he had his place marked under
the benches of the guests As in Greece
aud Rome, he was there TO dispose Of
bones the fragments OF meat, and the
pieces of bread that were thrown down,
and In a general way TO keep the dining
room clean. These were certainly not
very refined fashions and IL aour house
dogs had TO satisfy themselves iu this
way they would be likely 20 die of hum
ger.
The aucients did not feel the delicate
tastes and disgusts iu such matters that
we experience their life presented ez-
Csssivs rehnsmeuts and rude features
of which we have no idea, side by side.
The house dog in Egypt was a domestic
working at his trade only his trade was
one of those in which we have ceased TO
employ him; it may not have been q
great thing that he was lost, but IL is in
the kitchen or his kennel that he I'M
ishes up his masters dessert.
The house dog was shaved. com bed
with beuua as If he were a woman. He
wore hue collars on his neck, furnished
sometimes with an earth ernyvEre clasp
in the shape of bell or flower. Chill
drsu played with him became attached
TO him, and the hero of one story, TO
whom his fates had predicted at his
birth that he would die of the bite OF g
dog, willingly confronted the threatened
danger rather than be separated from
the dog which he bad raised. BE, of
course, had a name, TO which he an
swsred: Si-tOgai, the son Of the bat
At1sui the ferreteri KhaOubson, the
lamp or starr Soubou, the strong, and
Nahsi, the black,
He is seen with kings as well as with
common persons. Ramesis H., during
the earlier years OF his reign, was ale
ways escorted by a female dog, which
was called A uaiJieunalztou, or brave SIS
the goddess Auuitis- A petty king OF
the eleventh dynasty about $500 b. C.,
had i've dogs, which he SO loved that he
carved their names aud engraved their
portraits on his tomb. They were, in
deed blooded animals, whose names
revealed their foreign origin. The
finest of them was called A baiIrlrou, a
faithful transcription OF the word A bai-
iEouF, 10y which the hunting dog is desig-
mated i'm many of the Berber districts.
The shepherds had dogs Of medium
WIN pom IKE AAAAAae
guard the hOCtSs OF Upper Egypt.
Hunters sought out two or three kinds
of hounds, some having straight ears
aad short tails, and some dropping ears
and a long tail, like the slcuguis Of the
modern Berbers- They are to be seen
i'm many of the tOm5s1 spFiuging in pur-
suit of gazeuas and antelopes, or rum
ming down the hare and the ostrich. A
few Pugs, heavy and grotesque like
ours, are represented occasionally,
rather as house dogs than as hunters.
These animals were ia considerable
number, and made the ancient Egyptian
villages as dangerous at night as mod
sru villages are. An officer releRuted
TO one of the delta burgs few years
after the death of Rameses H. com
planned bitterly Of their boIduesz iu a
letter addressed TO one of his chiefs;
when sometimes" he says, "the
people OF the country meet 20 drink
! Cilician beer and 60 ont TO open the
bottles-there are two hundred large
mastiHs aud three hundred woIf-doga
waiting all day at the door Of my house
every time 60 ont at nightfau 20
take part I'm the feast am kept out If
I ] have not with me the little wolf-dog
| Of Nahilou, the royal scribe, who lodges
with me. He saves me from the other
dogs At whatever time 60 he goes
! with nae on the street, and when be
b4-EFaa Il rum aHH Do G4ANa ana
whips It is, in fact, only a pack Of
many, high-taiIsd wolf-doEs prowIiHg
around the cattle-Penz. When they
J have made their round, the largest ones
in front, ia "a compact mass, as if iu
( bunch. one would say that it was The
[ euchautmeuto OF some god, a flame which
I had 6zed itself out and would not let
I CO."
Rowing dogs are less numerous aud
I less 1erocious now, but they become at
times terrible 20 Btraugsrs- it has often
happened 20 me, when casually passing
through a village of upper Egypt about
midnight, TO be reminded when Z met
them OF the bulldog 10 one OF Dickens
novels d" bitter of man and a killer Of
chickens for sport, which usually lived
on the right side of the street. but also
hid itself on the LEFT side. so as 20 be
ready 90 jump upon the first passsr-bg-' 30
As e. IS under Tew6lc Pasha, so Sc WAS
in the time Of Rameses H., and the sE-
I psrieucs OF the present day enables NJ
I 60 understand exactly what our scribe
meant 10 the passage ] have just quoted
Nature
NEW JEwELRY.