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would quietly slip around the corner of the house to get out 

 of the reach of his companion's temper. Beagle, being a 

 large and powerful dog, had in him the ability to give Bus a 

 very sound whipping, but he was too noble and magnani- 

 mous a creature to take advantage of one younger and 

 smaller than himself. He would always allow Bus to have 

 his own way, knowing that the passion which was lacerat- 

 ing the bosom of his young companion and playmate would 

 soon spend itself, and the latter, ashamed and abashed, would 

 be soon seeking forgiveness and reconciliation. 



Even in such rarely tamed animals as the common mouse 

 the feeling of jealousy has been known to be so intense as 

 to lead to murder. A young lady, one of Rev. J. G. Wood's 

 correspondents, had succeeded in taming a common brown 

 mouse so completely that it would eat out of her hand and 

 suffer itself to be taken off the floor. She had also a tame 

 white mouse in a cage. One morning when she went to feed 

 the white mouse, as was her usual custom, she found it lying 

 dead on the bottom of the cage, and beside it was its mur- 

 derer, the brown mouse. The cage being opened, the latter 

 made its escape, as though fearful of the consequences that 

 might ensue, but how it had managed to gain admission was 

 always a mystery. 



Instances are on record where the jealousy of a rival has 

 been restrained for long years through fear, and has ulti- 

 mately broken out when the cause of the fear has been 

 removed. A case of the kind came under our notice some 

 few years ago. There were two cocks, belonging to different 

 breeds, whom fate had placed as denizens of the same family. 

 One was a magnificent dunghill cock, and the other a Malay, 

 a cowardly caitiff, that was kept in fear and subjection by 

 the former. In the course of events the dunghill cock sud- 

 denly died. His rival, coming by chance on his dead body, 

 and perceiving that the time had come to wreak out the 

 mixture of hatred and revenge that had lain smouldering 

 in his bosom for years, instantly sprang upon it, kicked, 



