48 LECTURE IY. 



On its being opened the shepherd's dog came 

 in, which had not before been missed, and by 

 his significant actions, by pulling the shepherd's 

 coat and looking earnestly at him, induced him 

 to follow the animal with his lantern, and was 

 led by him to some rocks, into which the boy is 

 supposed to have slipped, and thus the life of 

 the child was saved. 



I might multiply anecdotes of the sense of 

 dogs to a great extent ; but I will now tell you 

 something of the sagacity of elephants, which, 

 perhaps, have stronger reasoning powers than 

 any other animal. 



The father of a young lady who is now stay- 

 ing with me, was one day in a jungle in India 

 tiger-shooting, mounted on the back of a fa- 

 vourite and much-petted elephant. All at once 

 he saw a tiger crouching just beyond the head 

 of the elephant. Having pulled the trigger, his 

 rifle missed fire ; he threw it on the ground in 

 order to seize another, when, to his surprise, 

 the elephant picked up the fallen gun with his 

 trunk and gave it to him, as if aware that it 

 was necessary for the destruction of the tiger. 



Another day, this gentleman, while out tiger- 

 shooting on the same elephant, was aware that 



