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paddock with the high wall on the top, and one day the 

 hounds in pursuit of the fox forced it to make for the 

 wall through the field. No doubt the animal would 

 have got over the wall had it had time, but the cow 

 joined in the pursuit, and tossed the fox right over the 

 wall on her horns. This strange incident was repeated 

 some time afterwards, the cow a second time throwing 

 the jaded fox over the wall, having evidently entered 

 with the greatest excitement into the attack. " Was it 

 not an effort to save the fox?" we ask; but are assured 

 that the foxes are so numerous about, and the onslaughts 

 made by them so serious, that the cow was quite in 

 earnest in its enmity. 



" Paid for!" says a voice, as the little dog sits patiently 

 waiting for the expected word, with the lump of sugar 

 on its nose. So long as it is placed there with the 

 assurance that it is wholly "on trust," the little fellow 

 will quietly await its release from the moral restraint 

 thus imposed ; but the moment the magic words " paid 

 for " are repeated, that instant the poor fellow claims his 

 due. You are no doubt of opinion that he merely knows 

 the words mean " you are free to go ahead," and is afraid 

 of getting no more unless he awaits them, and that an 

 animal, after all, can really be taught no moral lesson. 

 The tiger-barred cat with the white breast knows a great 

 deal better, as she sits quietly with nothing but a wriggle 

 of her sympathetic tail, on the fender stool. For that is 

 the wonderful pussy that killed the chicken from the 

 brood brought out in the yard. She was caught in the 

 act, brought before the resident authority, and by 

 alternately slowly showing her the result of her great 

 impudence and thereafter applying the cane, she was 

 brought to a thorough appreciation of the nature of her 



