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the smile would be misplaced, and perhaps on 

 this head also more is gained than lost. Mr. 

 Philip Hamerton remarks : ' The main difficulty 

 in conceiving the mental states of animals is 

 that the moment we think of them as human we 

 are lost.' But there is a deeper insight in Mr. 

 Lloyd Morgan's retort : ' Yes ; but the pity of it 

 is that we cannot think of them in any other terms 

 than those of human consciousness. The only 

 world of constructs that we know is the world 

 constructed by man.' And it is just that ' reflex 

 of a human face ' always recognised by Miss 

 Hayward in her favourites, that gives the clue and 

 the interest to her account of their doings. 



This fellowship with the birds lasted the whole 

 of her life, and in her latest note to me, dated 

 January 8, 1894 not a fortnight before her death 

 she says, ' L. has been in ; also a robin, formally 

 introduced by Mrs. Halse ' (her Devonshire ser- 

 vant) ' with, " Come along ! here's your Missus." ' 



The confidence of the birds as they waited on 

 her window-sill, and watched their small ' Missus,' 

 and clamoured for and enjoyed her gentle hospi- 

 tality, was most remarkable : I never saw anything 

 like it. 



