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gesticulating). The herdmen and myself returned to the sty ; 

 we caught but one pig, and put him back ; no sooner had we 

 done so, than the dog ran after each pig in succession, brought 

 him back to the sty by the ear, and then went after another, 

 until the whole number were again housed " (p. 450). 



Further, I give an observation of my own (p. 445) on one 

 terrier making a gesture-sign to another. Terrier A being 

 asleep in my house, and terrier B lying on a wall outside, a 

 strange dog, C, ran along below the wall on the public road 

 following a dog-cart. Immediately on seeing C, B jumped 

 off the wall, ran upstairs to where A was asleep, woke him up 

 by poking him with his nose in a determined and suggestive 

 manner, which A at once understood as a sign : he jumped 

 over the wall and pursued the dog C, although C was by that 

 time far out of sight, round a bend in the road. 



On page 447 I give, on the authority of Dr. Beattie, the 

 case of a dog which saved his master's life (who had fallen 

 through the ice, and was supporting himself with a gun 

 placed across the -opening), by running into a neighbouring 

 village, and pulling a man by the coat in so significant a 

 manner that he followed the animal and rescued the gentle- 

 man. Many cases more or less similar to this one are recorded 

 in the anecdote books. 



Concerning the use of gesture-signs by monkeys, I give on 

 page 472 the remarkable case recorded by James Forbes, 

 F.R.S., of a male monkey begging the body of a female 

 which had just been shot. " The animal," says Forbes, " came 

 to the door of the tent, and, finding threats of no avail, began 

 a lamentable moaning, and by the most expressive gestures 

 seemed to beg for the dead body. It was given him ; he took 

 it sorrowfully in his arms and bore it away to his expecting 

 companions. They who were witnesses of this extraordinary 

 scene resolved never again to fire at one of the monkey race." 



Again, Captain Johnson writes of a monkey which he shot 

 upon a tree, and which then, as he says, " instantly ran down 

 to the lowest branch of a tree, as if he were going to fly at me 

 stopped suddenly, and coolly put his paw to the part wounded 



