WHY PIGS ARE GREEDY. 87 



or reason for a very few facts. But trying to find 

 out the reason for this and the reason for that 

 makes all the difference between an intelligent 

 man and a stupid one. 



Well, why should a pig and a dog bolt their 

 food with the utmost rapidity and greediness, 

 while the cat and the tiger will leisurely and 

 delicately eat their food ? 



The dog and the pig eat with the utmost 

 vulgarity, while the cat and tiger eat with ex- 

 treme deliberation. 



Now, consider them in their wild state. Dogs 

 and pigs lived in herds, and they had, you may 

 be quite sure, a deal of difficulty in obtaining 

 their food, and when they did find a store it was 

 more than likely that it was not sufficient to 

 satisfy the hunger of each member of the com- 

 munity, and so, to get anything like a meal, each 

 member had to eat its hardest and fastest. 



You cannot imagine any condition of things 

 more likely to make an animal greedy or selfish 

 than that. 



Now, cats did not live in herds, but in pairs, 

 and so when they killed some animal for food 

 they dragged it away to their caves, or lairs, and 

 being only two, and perhaps a few little ones, 

 they had more than sufficient food for all, so there 

 was no need for them to bolt their food, and in 

 consequence they ate quietly and at their leisure, 



