78 LECTURE VI. 



kindness which occurred under my own obser- 

 vation. The late Earl of Albemarle, when 

 Master of the Horse to the Queen, lived at the 

 Stud House in Hampton Court Park. He had 

 a fine breed of black-and-tan spaniels, one of 

 which produced a litter of puppies and died in 

 bringing them forth. Their plaintive cries, like 

 those of the pig I have mentioned, induced a 

 young female of the same breed, who never had 

 puppies of her own, or was in the way of having 

 any, to foster and warm them. They attempted 

 to suckle her; milk came in consequence, and 

 she was thus enabled to bring them all up. I 

 have often seen her employed at her task, and 

 nothing could exceed the affectionate way in 

 which she performed it. 



You shall hear of an instance of friendship in 

 animals. When the German Legion was ac- 

 tively engaged in the Peninsular War, two 

 horses were always picketed together and served 

 side by side in the same troop. One of these 

 horses at last died. His companion refused all 

 food, and pined away and expired a victim to 

 his affection for his constant companion. Birds, 

 also, that have been kept together in cages, have 



