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weak as her own. The driver then said that all the 

 animals were " off their feed." A monkey and other 

 pets at a villa near Villefranche, on Shrove-Tuesday, 

 the day before the shock which destroyed much life 

 and property, refused to enter the house where they 

 were generally anxious to come. They were all 

 spiritless, dull, and scared. A small lapdog which 

 usually sat on the arm of its master's chair at meals 

 refused to occupy its usual seat. 



But perhaps the most striking evidence that the 

 animals were in a state of fear was that the cows in the 

 dairies supplying the coast resorts seemed terrified, and 

 the quantity and quality of the milk suffered. As the 

 farmers and peasants of that district are noted for their 

 skill and knowledge in dairying, small facts of this 

 kind affecting the yield of milk and butter would 

 almost certainly be noticed and remembered. 



The Daily News correspondent was probably quite 

 right in attributing to the lady who refused to stay 

 longer in the hotel at Amalfi a share in the same 

 prescience exhibited by the animals. The high degree 

 of sensibility, more common in woman than in man, 

 would account for this. This sensitiveness to earth- 

 tremors is necessarily uncommon among persons not 

 living in the earthquake zones. They might feel a 

 sense of insecurity and of impending danger, but be 

 unable, owing to previous inexperience, to assign a 

 definite reason for their malaise. But after the first 

 shocks of earthquake in that particular disturbance in 

 the Riviera, those who had experienced it instantly 

 became intensely sensitive to the approach of the sub- 



