202 a\ery's own farrier. 



a particular favorite, caught sight of him, and her eyes 

 beamed with pleasure, while her tail wagged a glad 

 recognition. On his coming up to her, she appeared 

 frantic with joy; and when he spoke to her and pre- 

 sented his face to the cage, she kissed him and placed 

 her paw^ in his hand with the air of an intense affection, 

 and licked his hands while he attempted to pat her. 



And then there was another of Herr's, the elephant. 

 A circumstance happened while the menagerie was com- 

 ing into Newark. The elephant's keeper fell from his 

 horse in a fit; the whole company came to a hair, and 

 one of its members went forward to pick up the sick man, 

 but the elephant would not allow him or any person to 

 approach the lifeless form of his master. Taking him 

 with his trunk softly, he would place him on his horse, 

 but finding that the man was senseless, he laid him on 

 the ground and kept watch over him. Several members 

 of the menagerie tried to soothe the faithful animal, who 

 had now become furious at the supposed death of his 

 friend, but to no purpose, and there the man lay watched 

 by this sagacious animal. After lying in this condition 

 for some time, a physician who had been sent for arrived, 

 and yet the elephant would allow no one to approach 

 the man till at length the keeper became so far con- 

 scious as to command the elephant to let the physician 

 come near him, and then the animal was docile and 

 obedient in a moment. The keeper w^as cared for, the 

 elephant all the while expressing the utmost anxiety for 

 the sick man. 



Were these animals spoken of above forced wholly by 

 blows of the whip to love and obey their masters ? 



