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WHAT MR. DARWIN SAW. 



BRAZIL. 



in the evening. Their most troublesome fault, when young, 

 is their desire of playing with the sheep ; for in their sport 

 they sometimes gallop the poor things most unmercifully. 



The shepherd-dog comes to the house every day for some 

 meat, and as soon as it is given him he skulks away, as if 

 ashamed of himself. On these occasions the house-dogs are 

 very tyrannical, and the least of them will attack and pur- 

 sue the stranger. The minute, however, the latter has reached 

 the flock, he turns round and begins to bark, and then all 

 the house-dogs take very quickly to their heels. In a sim- 

 ilar manner, a whole pack of the hungry wild dogs will 

 scarcely ever venture to attack a flock guarded by even 

 one of these faithful shepherds. In this case the shepiierd- 

 dog seems to regard the sheep as its fellow -brethren, and 



thus gains confidence ; 

 and the wild dogs, 

 though knowing that 

 the individual sheep are 

 not dogs, but are good 

 to eat, yet, when seeing 

 them in a flock with a 

 shepherd - dog at their 

 head, partly consent to 

 regard them as he does. 



THE MONKEY. 



MONKEY WITH PREHENSILE TAIL. 



DUEING my stay at 

 Rio de Janeiro I resided 



