My Boyhood and Youth 



be made a pet, simply by sympathizing with 

 it and entering as much as possible into its life. 

 In Alaska I saw one of the common gray moun- 

 tain marmots kept as a pet in an Indian family. 

 When its master entered the house it always 

 seemed glad, almost like a dog, and when cold 

 or tired it snuggled up in a fold of his blanket 

 with the utmost confidence. 



We have all heard of ferocious animals, lions 

 and tigers, etc., that were fed and spoken to 

 only by their masters, becoming perfectly tame ; 

 and, as is well known, the faithful dog that 

 follows man and serves him, and looks up to 

 him and loves him as if he were a god, is a 

 descendant of the blood-thirsty wolf or jackal. 

 Even frogs and toads and fishes may be tamed, 

 provided they have the uniform sympathy of 

 one person, with whom they become intimately 

 acquainted without the distracting and varying 

 attentions of strangers. And surely all God's 

 people, however serious and savage, great or 

 small, like to play. Whales and elephants, danc- 

 ing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mis- 

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