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appearance of being asleep. His cunning suc- 

 ceeded, for some of the fowls were thrown off 

 their guard, and came within the circle of danger 

 to eat the potatoes. The fox then sprang upon 

 them and seized his prey. Was there not some 

 degree of reason in this ? 



Again : an old man was walking one day upon 

 the banks of a river, when he observed a badger 

 moving leisurely along the ledge of a rock on 

 the opposite bank. In a little time a fox came up, 

 and after walking some distance close in the rear 

 of the poor badger, he leaped into the water. 

 Immediately afterwards came a pack of hounds 

 in pursuit of the fox, who by this time was far 

 enough off floating down the stream, but the 

 unfortunate badger was instantly torn to pieces 

 by the dogs. Here was cunning combined with 

 reason. A fox has been seen to drop the end of 

 his tail among rocks on the seashore in order to 

 catch the crabs below, hauling up and devouring 

 such as laid hold of it. 



I will now give you an instance of what might 

 be called reason in a dog, and which occurred 

 in this town. A lady, proceeding to the house 

 of one of her pupils, near Brunswick Place, had 

 her cloak seized by a dog, that pulled her the 



