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Animals seek the same protection from each other, the 

 weaker from the stronger, that they sometimes do from man. 

 Thus a Danish dog always rushed for protection to the 

 kennel of a bloodhound if threatened with punishment 

 (Wood). 



Man himself sometimes seeks from the lower animals 

 that sort of protection which he cannot expect, or at least 

 so readily obtain, from fellow-man ; as when a tipsy sepoy 

 gets beneath the body or between the legs of an elephant as 

 a shelter and defence against a picket of his fellow soldiers. 

 From such a covert they find it impossible to dislodge the 

 delinquent; for the kindly and sagacious animal, having 

 a favour for the man who so confidently commits himself to 

 its more than hospitality, is ready to defend him to the death 

 against any attempt at his capture. 



All such incidents all illustrations of self-submission 

 by animals 1/o medical or surgical treatment by man ; of 

 self-treatment, medicinal, surgical, or obstetrical ; or of co- 

 operation or assistance in sickness or disablement of whatever 

 nature bring into prominence the following among other 

 mental qualities that deserve consideration : 



1. Sympathy with every kind of distress or difficulty 

 suffered by others sympathy of that practical kind, more- 

 over, that leads at once to the efficient assistance or relief of 

 those who obviously require help, whether they be other in- 

 dividuals of the same species or of other species and genera, 

 including man himself. 



This sympathy is not unfrequently expressed in the most 

 delicate way, for instance by cats and dogs to masters or 

 mistresses. Thus two terriers took upon themselves to 

 watch, if they could not otherwise nurse, a sick master. If 

 one left the sick-room the other always remained behind : 

 the invalid was thus never during his illness left alone by 

 his canine friends. In another case c a dog always slept 

 at his master's bedroom door when he (the master) was from 

 home, as if to protect his mistress .... This he did at no 

 other time ' (Jesse). Wood gives the case of a dog whose 

 mistress having become ill, went of its own accord to summon 

 her parents to her bedside. Again, a lamb, when its mistress 



