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fied and adapted to times, places, and circumstances, 

 and means to ends, that if man is beholden to rea- 

 son for his power of adaptation, we must also admit 

 that lower animals are likewise possessed of a great 

 degree of rationality. 



A dog will recognize its master, but it must be an 

 effort of memory which enables it to seek him when 

 lost, to perform the tricks it has been taught, or 

 the services it is called upon to render. There 

 must be memory or there would be no recognition. 



We are told that a horse, after being absent for 

 eleven years, when he returned to his former home, 

 remembered his owner, his stall, the way through 

 the fields to the brook for water, the spots where 

 he used to find the best grass, and seemed to recog- 

 nize all the unchanged surroundings. 



A dog returned to his former home after an ab- 

 sence of eight years, and remembered his former 

 owner and all the surroundings. An elephant was 

 known to remember a former keeper it had not 

 seen for seventeen years, and at the first request, 

 readily performed some tricks taught by him that 

 it had not performed since that time. 



A poor man in Edinburgh, Scotland, by the name 

 of Grey, owned a bright little dog named Bobby ; 



