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rightly attributed to some difference of scent, but why 

 they dislike the scent of some people and like that of 

 others, when both are equally well-disposed to the bees, 

 is not known. It seems due to unreasoning caprice, to 

 antipathy, and nothing else. The dislikes of dogs and 

 cats for certain people are probably more reasonable. 

 They divine, like children, who are really in sympathy 

 with them and who are not ; neither is this a very 

 difficult task, for most people are far more demonstra- 

 tive with animals than they are when desirous of 

 conciliating their own species. 



From these antipathies of sentiment the antipathies 

 of inheritance must be carefully distinguished. Many 

 of these can be explained, though the motive is less 

 obvious in some cases than in others. The hatred of 

 all cattle for dogs is very marked. There is no doubt 

 that this is a lasting inheritance from the days in which 

 their calves were constantly killed by wolves or wild 

 dogs. In India instances of sportsmen seeing the new- 

 born calf, with its mother defending it from wolves, 

 occur in most books on jungle sport, and the hatred 

 of the canidte associated with the strongest animal 

 instinct, the love of their young, has never been effaced 

 among cattle even in England, where the last wolf was 

 killed in the days of Henry VII. Why the horse not 

 only does not share this antipathy, but, on the contrary, 

 loves a dog, it is difficult to explain. Wolves are very 



