FOREWORD 



These are the ideas that I have aimed to 

 set forth in this tale. 



1st. That although an animal is much 

 helped by its mother s teaching, it owes still 

 more to the racial teaching, which is in- 

 stinct, and can make a success of life with- 

 out its mother s guidance, if only it can live 

 through the dangerous time oj infancy and 

 early life. 



2d. Animals often are tempted into im- 

 morality — by which I mean, any habit or 

 practice that would in its final working, 

 tend to destroy the race. Nature has rigor- 

 ous ways of dealing with such. 



3d. Animals, like ourselves, must main- 



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