lems, and that his humble and 

 gentle look was often so profound 

 and grave, laden with cares and 

 full of unreadable questions ? 



Alas, he did not have time to 

 finish the long and heavy task 

 which nature lays upon the in- 

 stinct that rises in order to ap- 

 proach a brighter region. . . . 

 An ill of a mysterious character, 

 which seems specially to punish 

 the only animal that succeeds in 

 leaving the circle in which it is 

 born ; an indefinite ill that carries 

 off hundreds of intelligent little 



