190 OTHEK ANIMALS 



As long as it survived the greeting was the same every 

 time its friend presented himself, till one day, months 

 after, on reaching the lion house, he learnt that the faith- 

 ful creature had died not from any result of the opera- 

 tion which had been absolutely successful, the wound 

 healing completely. Though uncertain of the operator's 

 name, I am clear as to the main facts, having often heard 

 the tale from my father, a medical student of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, at the time. 



A FRIEND OF ANIMALS. 



July 20, 1907. 



NOTE. If a one-celled protozoon, invisible except under 

 the microscope, is aware of and capable of differentiating 

 between what is physically good and what is physically 

 bad for it, there is certainly no improbability in so highly 

 developed an animal as a lion feeling a permanently 

 emotional response to an action which has done it physical 

 good. 



A DOMESTIC OTTER 



You may be interested to hear that some years ago a 

 young otter was adopted in a country house in Ireland. 

 A feeding bottle carried it over its first youth, and it 

 became an engaging pet. One day it was missed, and 

 after a prolonged search was found lying in the cradle 

 beside the baby, whose bottle it had abstracted and was 

 sucking dry. Nurse had gone for a walk, and left the 

 bottle to keep baby quiet. 



A. DE B. 



NOTE. Mr. Strachey's volume " Dog Stories from the 

 Spectator " is headed by the following quotation from 

 Dr. Johnson : " Sir, to leave things out of a book, merely 

 because people tell you they will not be believed, is 

 meanness." 



