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tion of man as a foster-parent for the upbringing of orphaned 

 young. Thus a dying St. Bernard dog, on her death-bed, 

 gave over her puppies as an obvious bequest to a much 

 loved and much trusted master (Wood). 



2. Danger of all kinds, including extrication from en- 

 tanglement, pitfalls, and other positions of difficulty; as 

 where a tame rat awoke its master in order that he might go 

 upstairs with it, and replace one of its young that had fallen 

 from its cage ; or where a gander used a similar means for the 

 extrication of some of its young from a mill race (Wood). 



3. Hunger : which leads the robin red-breast, for in- 

 stance, to frequent man's dwellings in bad winters or 

 which led Dr. John Brown's terrier * Mpper ' to beg the 

 assistance he could not himself render, to a starving pointer 

 bitch, and her litter of five pups. 



4. Despair : where man's protection is the only hope. 



5. Prey or food catching or conveying, as where the cat 

 begs its master to assist it in mouse-catching, young 

 swallows appeal to man for aid in food-catching (Jesse), or 

 Eskimo dogs ask man's aid in the conveyance of a dead 

 reindeer (Wood). 



Man's assistance is requested by certain animals, not only 

 for behoof of themselves, their young, or their fellows, but 

 also of his fellow man ; and herein they frequently render 

 the highest service to their masters or mistresses, or to the 

 children, relatives, or property of these masters or mistresses. 

 Thus, a dog, whose mistress is subject to epileptic attacks, 

 whenever she has one runs to the nearest house for human 

 assistance, seizing some woman's dress and dragging her 

 away. If one refuses to accompany him, he seizes another 

 and another, till his obvious and urgent invitation or demand 

 is complied with ( f Animal "World'). Another dog brought 

 timely aid to an aged nurse, affected with rheumatic fever, 

 who had fallen from an arm-chair into or upon the fire, when 

 nobody was present or at hand to come to her assistance. 

 'Without the dog she must have been burned to death 3 

 (Wood) . In many instances, helplessly drunk masters have 

 been, by their dog's intervention, saved from the consequences 

 of their folly from death, for instance, by exposure. 



