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posed, and triumphed, as you have seen, over 

 instinct, and that in a way which did the greatest 

 honour to British soldiers. 



I will now give you some instances of reason 

 in animals. Two friends of mine went out duck- 

 shooting. When they came near some high 

 reeds where they expected to find ducks, they 

 threw their hats down, crawled to the reeds, and 

 having shot at the birds, they sent their retriever 

 dog for the hats, one of them being much smaller 

 than the other. The dog took up first one hat 

 in his mouth, and then trying to take up the 

 second, the first, of course, dropped on the 

 ground. After some efforts to take them both 

 up at the same time, he put the smaller hat into 

 the larger one, pressed it down with his foot, 

 and then readily brought them both to his 

 masters. This, I think, affords a strong proof 

 of reason. 



Another friend of mine was shooting on a hill 

 in the north of England, which was surrounded 

 by a stone wall, about four feet high. He fired 

 at and wounded a hare, which ran through one 

 of the holes left at the bottom of the wall. He 

 sent his retriever after it, who readily leaped 

 the wall from the higher ground, and pursued, 



