174: FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



Be it remembered J that that dear and faithful 

 dog had never wandered from his home before that 

 morning, and that if ever he escaped his collar and 

 got loose, his invariable custom was to come to 

 look for me at the front door. In this instance he 

 left his long-cherished home, and hid himself in 

 an unwonted place, and near distasteful company, 

 evidently in some inexplicable fear of impending 

 death. 



It is not ]iow my intention to enumerate all the 

 instances I have seen in beasts, and birds occa- 

 sionally — but more rarely in birds — indicating a 

 connecting link between what is rather arrogantly 

 termed the inferior mind, and the asserted supe- 

 riority of human reason. It will, I hope, suffice to 

 show that I have a better foundation for what some 

 people iiwi/ call my ^' theories," than that most 

 amusingly clever, but in many ways erratic reasoner, 

 Mr. Darwin has, when he tells his talc of tailless 

 growth, and claims a jelly-fisli as the ^re-Adamite 

 parent of tlie apple-tempted joair. 



One of my great objects in this work, if liot the 

 greatest, is to win for horses, hounds, dogs, and 

 even every other innoxious beast and bird, a better 

 care from man, and to teach man that by restraint of 



