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stocked garden. The observer concluded that it had 

 deserted its sickly mate ; but after an absence of twenty- 

 four hours it returned, and apparently communicated the 

 result of its successful exploration, for both then started 

 along the same track, and disappeared over the wall. . . . 

 A small English terrier had been taught to ring for the 

 servant. To test if the dog knew why it rang the bell, he 

 was told to do so while the girl was in the room. The little 

 fellow looked up in the most intelligent manner at the 

 person giving the order, then at the servant, and refused 

 to obey, although the order was repeated more than once. 

 The servant left the room, and a few minutes afterwards 

 the dog rang the bell immediately on being told to do so. 

 [Another dog-story. My grandmother-in-law was blind 

 in one eye ; her dog, having been warned off her sofa, used 

 to seat himself there on her blind side. L. A. T.] . . . 

 Depriving bees of their antennae has the effect of pro- 

 ducing a marked bewilderment. A queen thus mutilated 

 by Huber ran about in confusion, dropping her eggs at 

 random, and appeared unable to take with precision the 

 food that was offered her. She showed no resentment to 

 a similarly mutilated stranger queen that was introduced ; 

 the workers also heeded not the mutilated stranger, but 

 when an unmutilated stranger was introduced they fell 

 upon her. When the mutilated queen was allowed to 

 escape, none of the workers followed. ... A Cape baboon 

 having taken off some clothes from the barracks, I formed 

 a party to recover them. With twenty men I made a 

 circuit to cut them off from the caverns, to which they 

 always fled for shelter. They observed my movements, 

 and detaching about fifty to guard the entrance, the others 

 kept their post. We could see them collecting large stones 

 and other missiles. One old grey-headed one, who had 

 often paid us a visit at the barracks, was seen distributing 

 his orders, as if a general. We rushed on to the attack, 

 when, at a scream from him, they rolled down enormous 

 stones on us, so that we were forced to give up the contest. 



