X^t)2. on animal instinct, 1 5 



strangers ; and the dog kennel was the readiest place 

 they could find. There, of course, he used to be ihut 

 up at niglit. In this situation he was quite at his 

 .ease ; and when ever any of the dogs offended him, 

 he naturally made a run at them, and gave them 

 such a blow as to hurt them very much. Feeling 

 thus his own power, Mr Willie afiumcd authority ; 

 ^nd as he Hked not to be disturbed, when the dogs 

 .became a-snarling at each other, and making a noise, 

 he used to rise up, and [make a race at them, stri- 

 king the first that came in his way with great force. 

 This kind of discipline soon produced its natural efti^^ 

 fects. The] offending dogs became afraid as soon as 

 this champion prepared himself for battle, so that, in 

 a. fliort time, he no sooner rose- up, than quiet was 

 restored to the kennel ; every dog ftirinking peace- 

 ably into his own place, without waiting for the 

 i)low. 



Animals that have no natural weapons for self-de- 

 fence, are generally endowed with other faculties 

 that they exert for that purpose. The cuttle-fiik, as 

 has been often remarked, when hard pursued, emits 

 an inky juice from itself, that renders the water so 

 muddy as to enable it often thus to escape. The 

 Jkunk, an animal of the weasel clafs, in America, emits 

 a substance of such intolerable fetor, as to overpower 

 almost every animal t'.iat comes near it. The tor- 

 .toise retires within its ilicll ; and the hedge-hog rolls 

 itself up into a prickly ball, which the dog in vain 

 attempts to tear in pieces. 



Some animals also are endowed with a natural in- 

 ^^inct for preserving their young, that has so much 



