Mind in Animals. 399 



Several of such cases have come to my notice. I shall 

 instance but one. A friend of mine has two terriers, a 

 mother and a daughter. The strongest bond of love and 

 fellowship unites them. They always sit close together, and 

 the mother playfully pinches her daughter all over. Should 

 they by chance become separated, even for a very short 

 time, the daughter comes up wagging her tail, and then licks 

 her mother's nose and mouth. When hunting together, 

 they always act in concert, each one taking a hole, and one 

 keeping watch while the other scrapes away the earth. The 

 meaning of each other's whine or bark is perfectly under- 

 stood, and no two persons could understand their own lan- 

 guage better than do these dogs theirs, nor be more com- 

 prehensible to each other. 



Self-abnegation is perhaps one of the most beautiful 

 characteristics which parental love can give. This is par- 

 ticularly shown when the young are in danger. A human 

 mother in charge of her child will defy a danger before 

 which she would shrink if alone, and in its defence would 

 dare deeds of which most strong men would be incapable, 

 for during the time her selfhood is extinguished, and her 

 being is sunk into that of her child. Such abnegation 

 becomes a true mother, for if she would not consent to do 

 and dare for the sake of her offspring, she would degrade 

 herself below the beasts and the birds, who hesitate not in 

 performing that duty to their children, though savants do 

 declare that they possess only storge, whatever they may 

 mean by it, and not parental love. 



Everyone who has paid even a passing attention to the 

 habits of birds must have noticed the vigilance a pair of cat- 

 birds exercise over their nest when containing young birds. 

 Neither parent, when the other is absent, relaxes this vig- 

 ilance, for they consider no labor, no care, no watchfulness, 

 too great or too exacting where their offspring are to be 

 benefited. Let an enemy approach, even if it be man 

 himself, and they are beside themselves with anger and 



