56 INTRODUCTION. 



moved with difficulty ; so faithful was he even to the 

 remains of him he had tenderly loved. 



I have known many dogs whose habit has been, as 

 soon as left by their owners, to search for something 

 belonging immediately to them— generally some article 

 of dress. This has been carried by the animal to his 

 bed, or into one corner of the room ; and to lie upon, 

 or to watch this, without stirring from it till the owner's 

 return, has been all his employ, and seemingly his only 



solace. 



Many dogs have an universal philanthropy, if I may 

 so express it — a general attachment to all mankind. 

 Others are not indiscriminately friendly to every one ; 

 but such, almost invariably, make it up by a more ar- 

 dent and a more durable regard for those they do love. 

 Perhaps the duration of an attachment in these animals 

 heightens our ideas of the intellectual powers, even 

 more than the immediate ardency of it; for the con- 

 stancy of it combines memory, reflection, and senti- 

 ments, that completely soar above instinctive impulses. 

 This regard for particular persons is so great, that it 

 frequently interferes with, and, now and then, totally 

 overcomes their instinctive care for their young. Here 

 the moral principle is at war with the instinctive, which 

 gives place to the superior powers of pure intellect. 

 Dogs forcibly separated from those they love, frequently 

 refuse food for many days : some have actually starved 

 themselves; and others, taking just enough to support 

 nature, have more gradually exhausted themselves, and at 

 length have died of grief. The same has occasionally oc- 

 curred when they have been separated from each other. 



Two spaniels, mother and son, were self hunting, in 

 Mr. Drake's w^oods, near Amersham, Bucks. The 

 gamekeeper shot the mother ; the son, frightened, ran 



