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hatched, and afterwards brought up the brood. 

 The old goose, as soon as the young one had taken 

 her place, sat down beside the nest, and shortly 

 after died. As the young goose had never been 

 in the habit of entering the kitchen before, the 

 fact can only be accounted for by supposing that 

 the old one had some way of communicating her 

 thoughts and anxieties which the other was per- 

 fectly able to understand. 



Another remarkable instance of a similar kind 

 we quote from the same author, who says it was 

 seen by a number of persons and communicated 

 by the best authority. A French surgeon, at 

 Smyrna, wishing to procure a stork, and finding 

 great difficulty in doing so on account of the extreme 

 veneration in which they are held by the Turks, 

 stole all the eggs out of a nest and replaced them 

 with those of a hen. In process of time, the young 

 chickens were hatched, to the utter amazement of 

 the storks. The male bird soon after disappeared, 

 and was not seen for two or three days, when he 

 returned accompanied by a host of his companions, 

 who all assembled in the place and formed a circle, 

 taking no notice of the numerous spectators whom 

 so unusual an occurrence had collected. The 

 female stork was brought forward and placed in 

 the midst of the circle, and, after some consulta- 

 tion, the whole flock fell upon her, and tore her to 



