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and most appropriately quoted on the monument to his 

 memory in front of the memorial church erected on the site 

 of the house in which he spent the last years of his life, at 

 East Dereham, Norfolk : 



I was a stricken deer that left the herd 

 Long since. With many an arrow deep infix'd 

 My panting side was charged when I withdrew 

 To seek a tranquil death in distant shades. 



Some animals have regular cemeteries, to which they retire 

 to die. Thus the lla.ma of South America has its district 

 cemeteries, in or on which its bones are to be found bleaching 

 in great numbers. 



Another not uncommon indication and result of the 

 feeling of coming dissolution is the farewell, in various 

 forms, taken by dying dogs and cats of their long and well- 

 loved masters and mistresses, and the bequests that some- 

 times characterise the said farewells. 



Premonition of death in certain animals those that are 

 and feel themselves old, infirm, or hopelessly wounded 

 appears usually to produce a calm resignation ; a sense of 

 the inevitable leads to unprotesting acquiescence; no fear 

 of death is shown. But in other animals that are and feel 

 themselves in the prime of youth, or in the full vigour of 

 maturity and health, there is, frequently at least, developed 

 what seems to be a decided fear of death, and this fear leads 

 to very active protest against visible preparations for their 

 slaughter. Such a fear and protest a.ppear to be the cause 

 of the bellowings and struggles of cattle taken to the 

 shambles, where the smell of blood and the sight of other 

 animals slaughtered, or in the process of being so, lead the 

 new victims to infer what is the fate intended for themselves. 

 Again, when an elephant succeeds, after many efforts, in 

 extricating itself from a dangerous quagmire or quicksand 

 in which it had accidentally become immerged, it is probably 

 the fear of the death that seemed and was so imminent that 

 causes it to tremble all over, as Wood states that it does. 



In a way that cannot at present be explained dogs and 

 cats often have a prescience of a master's intentions to shoot 

 or drown them ; and this sort of premonition of their pro- 



