THIRD WEEK] October 267 



what the fear of death will do. The ordinary neigh of a 

 horse is very familiar, but in battle when mortally wounded, 

 or having lost its master and being terribly frightened, a 

 horse will scream, and those who have heard it, say it is 

 more awful than the cries of pain of a human being. 



Deer and elk often astonish one by the peculiar sounds 

 which they produce. An elk can bellow loudly, especially 

 when fighting; but when members of a herd call to each 

 other, or when surprised by some unusual appearance, they 

 whistle a sudden, sharp whistle, like the tin mouth- 

 pieces with revolving discs, which were at one time so 

 much in evidence. 



The growl of a bear differs greatly under varying cir- 

 cumstances. There is the playful growl, uttered when two 

 individuals are wrestling, and the terrible "sound" no 

 word expresses it to which a bear, cornered and driven 

 to the last extremity, gives utterance fear, hate, dread, 

 and awful passion mingled and expressed in sound. One 

 can realise the fearful terror which this inspires only when 

 one has, as I have, stood up to a mad bear, repelling charge 

 after charge, with only an iron pike between one's self 

 and those powerful fangs and claws. The long-drawn 

 moan of a polar bear on a frosty night is another phase; 

 this, too, is expressive, but only of those wonderful Arctic 

 scenes where night and day are as one to this great seal- 

 hunter. 



The dog has made man his god, giving up his life 

 for his master would be but part of his way of showing his 

 love if he had it in his power to do more. So, too, the dog 

 has attempted to adapt his speech to his master's, and 



