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herd, for it made her sullen and morose, and from that time 

 she resented all familiarity upon the part of the master. She 

 seemed to view him as her worst enemy. All attempts to 

 settle her grievances were viewed in a suspicious manner, 

 and the matter of reconciliation had at length to be aban- 

 doned. 



Beasts, there is no doubt, were intended to be the servants 

 of man, and there is nothing in his hands half so powerful 

 in the accomplishment of this end as thoughtful kindness. 

 Inflexible decision, combined with gentleness and sympathy, 

 are irresistible weapons in his power, and no animal exists, 

 I firmly believe, which cannot be subdued if the right man 

 undertakes the task. By this mixture of firmness and kind- 

 ness many a wild beast of a horse has been in a half-hour 

 rendered gentle and subservient by Rarey, obeying the least 

 sign of his conqueror, and permitting himself to be freely 

 handled without displaying the slightest resentment. 



That there is something more in memory than a mere 

 production of a material brain must seem probable from the 

 examples given. In several cases the animals were without 

 any brains at all, but in others, where a brain did exist, its 

 material particles must have been repeatedly changed, while 

 the ideas impressed upon the memory still remained in full 

 force. 



Perhaps no attribute of the mind is better fitted to follow 

 that which has just been treated than Generosity. But 

 whether we accept it in the sense of liberality or magnanim- 

 ity, it is certainly a very lofty quality, and one which infi- 

 nitely ennobles the character of those who possess it. Taken 

 in the former sense, it is an attribute of Deity, who gives us 

 freely all that we have, and so sets us an example of gener- 

 osity to our fellow-creatures. Now, if it be admitted that 

 the possession of generosity ennobles man's character, while 

 the lack of that quality debases it, then the inference is unde- 

 niable that when we find a beast possessing generosity, and 

 a man devoid of it, the beast is in that particular the superior 



