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Now, guess wheat this wound might be. A burn. In this dangerous 

 Indian climate, where everything grows putrid, they are frequently 

 constrained to cauterize the sores. He endured this treatment 

 patiently, and went eveiy day to undergo it. He felt no antipathy 

 towards the surgeon who inflicted upon him so sharp an agony. He 

 groaned ; nothing more. He evidently understood that it was done 

 for his benefit ; that his torturer was his friend ; that this necessary 

 cruelty was designed for his cure. 



Plainly this elephant acted upon reflection, and upon a blind 

 instinct ; he acted against nature in the strength and enlightenment 

 of his will. 



Page 270. The master-nightingale. 1 owe this anecdote to a 

 lady well entitled to a judgment upon such questions to Madame 

 Garcia Viardot (the great singer). The Russian peasants, who pos- 

 sess a fine ear and a keen sensibility for Nature (compared with her 

 harshness towards them), said, when they occasionally heard the 

 Spanish cantatrice : " The nightingale does not sing so well." 



Page 273. Still the little one hesitates, &e. " One day I was 

 walking with my son in the neighbourhood of Montier. We perceived 

 towards the north, on the Little Saleve, an eagle emerging from the 



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