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Why? Simply because a nest is foreign 

 to his nature. When he urinates, how- 

 ever, he carefully extends his fore legs, 

 to avoid having them spattered and soiled. 

 He uses care here. But when you put 

 him in a stable and force him to sleep in a 

 nest, contrary to his nature, his instincts, 

 not having been educated to the caring for 

 and keeping of a nest, are at fault, and 

 necessarily so in an animal whose home 

 is the open plain, and who seldom, or 

 never, sleeps twice in the same spot, but 

 finds a fresh place to rest whenever his 

 needs require. 



In whatever direction we look, whether 

 we take into view his natural history, and 

 study him in his wild state, or as we find 

 him among savage or semi-civilized peo- 



