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not admit one to her teats unless the other be present 

 and partaking; otherwise one might famish while the 

 other would grow fat. 



This manifestation, for the most part, suits the tyrant 

 man, and therefore, in all convenient cases, he very 

 blandly suffers Nature to take her course. The Lap- 

 lander cannot afford to be so benevolent. The female 

 reindeer drops her fawn about the middle of May, and 

 gives milk from the end of June to the middle of 

 October. Now few mothers are more extremely fond of 

 their young than these does. If they lose one they seek 

 it everywhere, and, if it be to be found, never rest till 

 they have discovered it. The Laplander, therefore, 

 knows better than to separate the doe from the fawn. 

 Morning and evening the herd is brought up to be 

 milked. A rope, both ends of which are held in the 

 hand of the assistant, is cast over the neck of the doe, 

 and she is thus compelled to submit, giving about a pint. 

 This might seem to be a sufficient fraud upon the poor 

 fawn, but no. As soon as the pint is abstracted the teats 

 of the doe are anointed with a preparation most offen- 

 sive to the fawn, which thus, notwithstanding its intense 

 disgust, gets just enough to preserve life and no more, and 

 leaves the poor mother with a comparatively full udder 

 to enrich the dairy of her honest master. 



All animals of a high grade show the greatest distress 

 if their young are taken from them, and will, if necessary, 

 fight stoutly in their defence. In that most revolting 

 case of the vivisection of a poor bitch, she endeavoured 

 to lick her puppies in the midst of her tortures, and when 

 they were removed uttered the most plaintive cries. 



The crew of the discovery-ship Carcass, sent on an 

 exploring voyage to the North Pole in the last century, 

 witnessed a most touching instance of maternal affec- 

 tion, which seems, however, to have had no effect on the 

 hearts of some of those who beheld it. 



