206 THE PSYCHICAL KINSHIP 



highly developed emotional nature, would scarcely 

 allow anyone else than my sister to milk her. She 

 always presented herself to my sister as soon as 

 she was let into the lot in order to be milked first, 

 and she was so jealous of this privilege that if it 

 were not accorded to her she would stand with 

 her head down and give vent to her unhappi- 

 ness in low moans. After she was milked she 

 would follow her human friend around from one 

 cow to another, in order to be as near her as 

 possible. She knew my sister's voice from that 

 of everyone else, and would always low a response 

 and come to her when called by name, even though 

 she were a quarter of a mile away in the pasture. 

 Romanes tells somewhere of a band of apes that 

 were being pursued by dogs when a young ape 

 was cut off from the rest and was about to be 

 killed by the dogs. The chief of the band, seeing 

 the peril of the young one, went deliberately back 

 and rescued it. 



Many animals show that they possess a rudi- 

 mentary sense of humour by the pranks and 

 tricks which they play on each other and on 

 human beings. The monkey is the prince of non- 

 human jokers, but dogs, cats, horses, elephants, 

 and other animals have enough of this sense 

 to have books written about it. A monkey has 

 been observed to slyly pass his hand back of a 

 second monkey and tweak the tail of a third one, 

 and then composedly enjoy himself while the 

 resentment of the injured monkey expended itself 

 on the innocent middle one. Many monkeys 



