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because there is no more resistance ; and 

 a bull will trample on a hat and leave it 

 when it becomes a shapeless mass. The 

 nearest thing I ever saw to an apparent 

 foreknowledge of death, was in the case of 

 that least intelligent of dogs, a greyhound. 

 I had to shoot it to prevent useless suffering 

 from disease. It followed me willingly, but 

 when I led it to a pit prepared as its grave it 

 instantly rushed off at its best speed. I 

 suggest that it saw instinctively something 

 unpleasant was about to happen, but it does 

 not follow that death was present to its mind. 

 Domestic poultry will furiously attack one of 

 their number that struggles on the ground 

 in its death-agony. They do not dream 

 of death ; they think its contortions are a 

 challenge to combat. 



R. SCOTT SKIRVINC;. 



