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every instance with similar manifestations of fear." And 

 as an example of combined fear and anger, Mr. Spalding 

 says, " One day last month, after fondling my dog, I put 

 my hand into a basket containing four blind kittens three 

 days old. The smell my hand had carried with it sent 

 them puffing and spitting in a most comical fashion." 



A remarkable instance of inherited antipathy in the dog 

 was communicated by Dr. Huggins to Mr. Darwin. He 

 possessed an English mastiff, Kepler, which was brought 

 when six weeks old from the stable in which he was bom. 

 The first time Dr. Huggins took him out he started back in 

 alarm at the first butcher's shop he had ever seen, and 

 throughout his life he manifested the strongest and 

 strangest antipathy to butchers and all that pertained to 

 them. On inquiry. Dr. Huggins ascertained that in the 

 father, in the grandfather, and in two half-brothers of 

 Kepler the same curious antipathy was innate. Of these, 

 Paris, a half-brother, on one occasion, at Hastings, sprang 

 at a gentleman who came into the hotel at which his master 

 was staying. The owner caught the dog, and apologized, 

 saying he had never known him to behave thus before 

 except when a butcher came into the house. The gentle- 

 man at once said that was his business. 



That many animals display affection towards their 

 offspring and their mates, towards man and towards other 

 companions, is a matter of familiar observation. Often 

 the attachments are strange, as of cats and horses, or 

 contrary to instinctive tendencies, as between cats and 

 dogs. Sometimes they are capricious, as when Mr. 

 Komanes's wounded widgeon conceived a strong, persistent, 

 and unremitting attachment to a peacock ; * or even insane, 

 as where a pigeon became the victim of an infatuation for 

 a ginger-beer bottle. Strong attachment to man is often 

 exhibited. Every one knows the story which Mr. Darwin 

 tells t of the little monkey who bravely rushed at the 

 dreaded baboon which had attacked his keeper. A friend 



* " Mental Evolution in Animals," p. 318. 

 t " Descent of Man," pt. i. chap. iii. 



