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fore parts is associated with endowments of a higher 

 animal nature than that of a mere reptile. I men- 

 tioned, by way of analogy, the excitement of the Cat- 

 bird, in Wilson's vivid description of alarm and sym- 

 pathy in the forest when the cries of young birds are 

 imitated. A very characteristic scene of emotion 

 occurred the other day in the farm of a friend near 

 this place. The calves had been penned up for the 

 night, and the mother-kine were gathered about the 

 adjoining common to be driven up for the morning 

 milking. My young relative Peter, accompanied b^^ 

 another young friend, had gone to the pen-fold conl- 

 taining the calves, and had there indulged his music^ 

 predilections by carrying with him an accordion, from 

 which at times he sounded those musical cadences, 

 -sometimes in an ascending, sometimes in a descending 

 series of notes, at all times solemn and exciting. 

 The cows, alarmed at the unusual sound from the 

 pen-fold in which were fastened up their impa- 

 tient and expectant young ones, ran eagerly from 

 all parts of the field — so true was nature to her sym- 

 pathies — to what they considered the cry of the calves 

 in danger, as if one mind actuated them. The poor 

 boys, alarmed at the menaces they saw on all sides, 

 without divining the cause, ran away, sounding occa- 

 sionally, as they ran, the still exciting accordion. 

 The cows pressed in pursuit to ascertain the mys- 

 tery of the clamour and cry of distress now turned 

 from the cattle-pen to the field. The boys scudded 

 on in great fright, and escaped the anxious curiosity of 

 the kine with considerable difficulty. A friend related 

 to me a still more remarkable instance of sympathetic 

 emotion, in the simultaneous gathering together of the 



