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hind the beggar, snatched the stick from his hand, 

 and carried it into the road where he left it. 



I will now give an extract from a letter, sent to 

 me by a respectable gentleman in Scotland, which 

 would appear to prove that even fish are possessed 

 of a reasoning faculty. 



" I was ordered to take the cutter I commanded 

 to Port Nessock, near Port Patrick. On landing, 

 I was informed of Colonel Me Dowell's sea fish- 

 pond and went to look at it. On arriving, I fed 

 the large cod out of my hand from some mussels 

 which I had in a basin. I purposely, however, 

 retained one mussel in the basin, and offered it to 

 the cod in order to see how, with its broad mouth 

 and short tongue, it would reach it. The cod 

 blew into the basin (a small slop basin) and the 

 reaction forced the mussel out of it, and the cod 

 seized it immediately. This fish allowed me to 

 pat it on the back, and rested its head on the 

 stone upon which I was standing just like a dog. 

 The other fish came to me and fed on the mussels 

 I threw to them, but would not let me handle 

 them though I patted some of them." 



The late amiable and excellent Sir Herbert 

 Taylor informed me of the following fact. 



When he resided at Fan Grove, near Chertsey, 

 in Surrey, he had a cow which was in the constant 

 habit of turning the handle of a turnip-slicer, when 

 the hopper had any turnips in it. The cow would 



