Show I 1 1 tin n i v ff l lr L cwi iwi L skill of i the ancients in subduing wild jl eart there are ae a e few beme benefits fits which we e owe ove tv oar forefathers greater than the er 1 less skill and pati patience enoe with th t timed tamed th thi i e ani animals rials wl which aich we ve call r the present nt lay day domestic it mr have required a steady p extending through countless goner ener gions to have succeeded in inducil indu cir such essentially wild and mistrusts animals as cats to lay asido aside their timi ity and suspicion and to become tlc ale faithful friends of man the people who v lio accomplished thin chii great 1 benefit for posterity had according to the academy more leisure than their restless and hard worked des descendants end they were generally members of slave states in ia which v inch th food supply was plentiful and in ia ahk i we e may inay suppo suppose that both masters ani and slaves had plenty of time on their hands in some cases the obvious utility of the animals caused them to L t tamed arned in some soma casa cases casas s this thi very cry utility eane came to invest them with a PJ sin finity ity which as in case of the cat in kept and the cow in india afforded an a additional guaranty for their preservation vt ion the ancients seem 3 fo to have tamed almost all the existing exi stin animals known to them that were worth taming had bad th they ey known known the american bison they might have added him to the list of draught animals we ive possess possibly too the weasel stoat and polecat might have been reclaimed and employed na as a useful too to vermin it Is certain that some an animals ma s w which c were once tamed ame have hav e been allowed to relapse into it a wild state statch sua as hawks monkeys and crocodiles in egypt and weasels in greece and some rome |