ifteen] happy animals 



pressed its head against the bars while its muzzle 

 was stroked. Taylor thought that among caged 

 lions he had also found some that recognized 

 Arabic. Darwin says, "Man uses, in common 

 with the lower animals, inarticulate cries to express 

 his meaning, aided by gestures and movements 

 of the muscles of the face. These gestures and 

 movements are more expressive than any words. 

 They flow out in the music of the birds, and into 

 the articulation of man." 



No vision of the future will be reasonably com- 

 plete that does not anticipate a greatly increased 

 power of understanding our animal friends and 

 bird friends, and consequent intercourse between 

 them and ourselves. 



Rev. Jenkin Lloyd .lones tells me that, "Last 

 Sunday Tessie, a Scotch collie dog, stood on a pul- 

 pit platform and was the attraction at the St. 

 James' Methodist Sunday-school. She told the 

 children the number of the Apostles, the number of 

 verses in their Sunday-school lesson, and the num- 

 ber of days in the year. She added, subtracted, 

 and divided; and she told the children the name 

 of the figure on the blackboard, which was written 

 and erased during her absence. Of course she had 



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