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The
dog
,
you
see
,
always
was
a
social
animal
,
and
this
was
true
before
ever
he
came
to
be
domesticated
by
man
.
In
the
last
days
of
the
world
before
the
plague
,
there
were
many
many
very
different
kinds
of
dogs
--
dogs
without
hair
and
dogs
with
warm
fur
,
dogs
so
small
that
they
would
make
scarcely
a
mouthful
for
other
dogs
that
were
as
large
as
mountain
lions
.
Well
,
all
the
small
dogs
,
and
the
weak
types
,
were
killed
by
their
fellows
.
Also
,
the
very
large
ones
were
not
adapted
for
the
wild
life
and
bred
out
.
As
a
result
,
the
many
different
kinds
of
dogs
disappeared
,
and
there
remained
,
running
in
packs
,
the
medium-sized
wolfish
dogs
that
you
know
to-day
.
"
"
But
the
cats
do
n't
run
in
packs
,
Granser
,
"
Hoo-Hoo
objected
.
"
The
cat
was
never
a
social
animal
.
As
one
writer
in
the
nineteenth
century
said
,
the
cat
walks
by
himself
.
He
always
walked
by
himself
,
from
before
the
time
he
was
tamed
by
man
,
down
through
the
long
ages
of
domestication
,
to
to-day
when
once
more
he
is
wild
.
"
The
horses
also
went
wild
,
and
all
the
fine
breeds
we
had
degenerated
into
the
small
mustang
horse
you
know
to-day
.
The
cows
likewise
went
wild
,
as
did
the
pigeons
and
the
sheep
.
And
that
a
few
of
the
chickens
survived
you
know
yourself
.
But
the
wild
chicken
of
to-day
is
quite
a
different
thing
from
the
chickens
we
had
in
those
days
.
"
But
I
must
go
on
with
my
story
.
I
travelled
through
a
deserted
land
.
As
the
time
went
by
I
began
to
yearn
more
and
more
for
human
beings
.
But
I
never
found
one
,
and
I
grew
lonelier
and
lonelier
.
I
crossed
Livermore
Valley
and
the
mountains
between
it
and
the
great
valley
of
the
San
Joaquin
.
You
have
never
seen
that
valley
,
but
it
is
very
large
and
it
is
the
home
of
the
wild
horse
.
There
are
great
droves
there
,
thousands
and
tens
of
thousands
.
I
revisited
it
thirty
years
after
,
so
I
know
.
You
think
there
are
lots
of
wild
horses
down
here
in
the
coast
valleys
,
but
they
are
as
nothing
compared
with
those
of
the
San
Joaquin
.
Strange
to
say
,
the
cows
,
when
they
went
wild
,
went
back
into
the
lower
mountains
.
Evidently
they
were
better
able
to
protect
themselves
there
.
"
In
the
country
districts
the
ghouls
and
prowlers
had
been
less
in
evidence
,
for
I
found
many
villages
and
towns
untouched
by
fire
.
But
they
were
filled
by
the
pestilential
dead
,
and
I
passed
by
without
exploring
them
.
It
was
near
Lathrop
that
,
out
of
my
loneliness
,
I
picked
up
a
pair
of
collie
dogs
that
were
so
newly
free
that
they
were
urgently
willing
to
return
to
their
allegiance
to
man
.
These
collies
accompanied
me
for
many
years
,
and
the
strains
of
them
are
in
those
very
dogs
there
that
you
boys
have
to-day
.
But
in
sixty
years
the
collie
strain
has
worked
out
.
These
brutes
are
more
like
domesticated
wolves
than
anything
else
.
"
Hare-Lip
rose
to
his
feet
,
glanced
to
see
that
the
goats
were
safe
,
and
looked
at
the
sun
's
position
in
the
afternoon
sky
,
advertising
impatience
at
the
prolixity
of
the
old
man
's
tale
.
Urged
to
hurry
by
Edwin
,
Granser
went
on
.
"
There
is
little
more
to
tell
.
With
my
two
dogs
and
my
pony
,
and
riding
a
horse
I
had
managed
to
capture
,
I
crossed
the
San
Joaquin
and
went
on
to
a
wonderful
valley
in
the
Sierras
called
Yosemite
.
In
the
great
hotel
there
I
found
a
prodigious
supply
of
tinned
provisions
.
The
pasture
was
abundant
,
as
was
the
game
,
and
the
river
that
ran
through
the
valley
was
full
of
trout
.
I
remained
there
three
years
in
an
utter
loneliness
that
none
but
a
man
who
has
once
been
highly
civilized
can
understand
.
Then
I
could
stand
it
no
more
.
I
felt
that
I
was
going
crazy
.
Like
the
dog
,
I
was
a
social
animal
and
I
needed
my
kind
.
I
reasoned
that
since
I
had
survived
the
plague
,
there
was
a
possibility
that
others
had
survived
.
Also
,
I
reasoned
that
after
three
years
the
plague
germs
must
all
be
gone
and
the
land
be
clean
again
.
"
With
my
horse
and
dogs
and
pony
,
I
set
out
.
Again
I
crossed
the
San
Joaquin
Valley
,
the
mountains
beyond
,
and
came
down
into
Livermore
Valley
.
The
change
in
those
three
years
was
amazing
.
All
the
land
had
been
splendidly
tilled
,
and
now
I
could
scarcely
recognize
it
,
's
uch
was
the
sea
of
rank
vegetation
that
had
overrun
the
agricultural
handiwork
of
man
.
You
see
,
the
wheat
,
the
vegetables
,
and
orchard
trees
had
always
been
cared
for
and
nursed
by
man
,
so
that
they
were
soft
and
tender
.
The
weeds
and
wild
bushes
and
such
things
,
on
the
contrary
,
had
always
been
fought
by
man
,
so
that
they
were
tough
and
resistant
.
As
a
result
,
when
the
hand
of
man
was
removed
,
the
wild
vegetation
smothered
and
destroyed
practically
all
the
domesticated
vegetation
.
