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Now, guess what this wound might be. A burn. In this dangerous 

 Indian climate, where everything grows putrid, they are frequently 

 constrained to cauterize the sores. He endm-ed this treatment 

 patiently, and went every day to undergo it. He felt no antipathy 

 towards the surgeon who inflicted upon him so sharp an agony. He 

 groaned ; nothing more. He evidently understood that it was done 

 for his benefit ; that his torturer was his friend ; that this necessary 

 cruelty was designed for his cure. 



Plainly this elephant acted upon reflection, and upon a blind 

 instinct ; he acted against nature in the strength and enlightenment 

 of his will. 



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Page 270. The master-nightingale. — I owe this anecdote to a 

 lady well entitled to a judgment upon such questions — to Madame 

 Garcia Viardot (the gi-eat singer). The Russian peasants, who pos- 

 sess a fine ear and a keen sensibility for Nature (compared with her 

 harshness towards them), said, when they occasionally heard the 

 Spanish cantatrice : " The nightingale does not sing so well." 



Page 273. Still the little one hesitates, &g. — " One day I was 

 walking with my son in the neighbourhood of Montier. We perceived 

 towards the north, on the Little Saleve, an eagle emerging from the 



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