AFFECTION IN A LAMB. 115 



He would run at them with his head, try to trample 

 on them, and never rest till the dog was tied up 

 again, when he appeared perfectly satisfied. 



" When the lamb was grown up, circumstances 

 obliged us to change our residence. In removing 

 to another house, the pet was left behind, under 

 the care of a woman who had charge of the house. 

 On missing its old friends, it went every where in 

 search of them, and stood before those doors lead- 

 ing to rooms in which it had been in the habit of find- 

 ing us. It bleated most piteously ; and at last went 

 up stairs, and laid itself down at my bed-room 

 door, as it had been accustomed to do before I 

 was up in the morning. When the door was opened 

 and it saw the empty room, it renewed its la- 

 mentations, and this it continued to do all the 

 day. It ate nothing, and did nothing but moan 

 and cry. Sometimes it would run about, as if a 

 sudden thought had struck it, and a new hope had 

 sprung up ; and when it found it was a vain hope, 

 and that it could not find us, it refused all food. 

 Its bleatings were fainter and fainter, it looked 

 ill, its eyes were dim, and soon afterwards it 

 died. The next morning they brought us the body 

 of our poor lamb." 



Affection wil! 5 indeed, preponderate against the 

 strongest impulses of nature in animals. Thus a 

 tame Doe has been known to swim a river, in order 

 to follow a person who has treated it with kind- 



