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only reason, animals have instinct and reason too. At least I 

 believe that the larger kind of animals have some share of 

 reason. I have never told you about our colley bitch. Last 

 year she had pups, and she was very much annoyed by a cat 

 which would go prowling about the building where the bitch 

 was kept ; so the bitch took the opportunity of one day killing 



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the cat. Now the cat had just had kittens, and all were 

 drowned but one. When the mother was killed, its kitten cried' 

 most piteously, and had to be fed with milk by the servants. 

 The bitch had not known that the cat had kittens, until she 

 heard the kitten scream, and then she showed as plainly as 

 possible that she was sorry for what she had done, and took 



