How Animals Talk 



Why are there men and women that while they are near 



me the sunlight expands my blood? 

 Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat 



and lank? 

 Why are there trees I never walk under but large and 



melodious thoughts descend upon me? 

 What is it that I interchange so suddenly with strangers? 

 What with some driver as I ride on the seat by his side? 

 What with some fisherman drawing his seine by the shore as 



I walk by and pause? 

 What gives me to be free to woman's and man's good-will? 



what gives them to be free to mine? 



Again, our familiar human experience may throw 

 some clearer light than ever comes from the 

 laboratory of animal psychologists upon the action 

 of gregarious brutes in their so-called blind panics, 

 when they are said to be governed by some ex- 

 traneous or non-individual herd impulse. How 

 such a theory originated is a puzzle to one who 

 has closely observed animals in the open, since 

 their panics are never "blind," and their "ex- 

 traneous" impulse may often be traced to an 

 alarmed animal of their own kind, or even to an 

 excited human being, whose emotions are animal- 

 like both in their manifestation and in their irritat- 

 ing effect. A dog is more easily roused by human 

 than by canine excitement. A frightened rider 

 sends his fear or irresolution in exaggerated form 

 into the horse beneath him. The herd of swine 

 that ran down a steep place into the sea were 



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