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some especial effect. To be brief, the two became fast friends ere spring 
time; the crane accompanies his horned favourite daily to the pastures and 
often visits him in the stable. He treats him always with the most marked 
deference and evidently considers him as his superior. In his stable he 
stands respectful and erect by his friend, as though obliged to await his 
orders; keeps the flies off him; answers when he roars; and takes every 
possible means to pacify his friend when enraged. When the bull is among 
the cattle in the yard he plays the part of adjutant—generally walking 
about two paces in his rear, often dancing round him, bowing respectfully, 
and in fact behaving in so droll and comical a manner that no one could 
look on without laughing. In the afternoon he follows the bull and the 
whole herd to the meadows, a distance of more than two miles, and returns 
with them in the evening. The bird generally follows some few paces in the 
rear of his friend, or else walks alongside of him, or suddenly precedes him 
and runs on twenty yards or more, and then turning round bows down 
before his august companion until the latter has come up with him. These 
proceedings are carried on through the whole village, to the intense amuse- 
ment of the inhabitants, until the farm-yard is reached, when, after repeated 
bows and demonstrations of affection, he takes leave of his respected 
companion. 
«“ «This bull is, however, the only animal on this estate which he treats 
with such distinction. Over all the rest he asserts his superiority, and fully 
understands how to uphold it. In the village, and especially on the estate, 
he plays the overseer, and is a great stickler for order; he acts the part of 
sheep-dog to the herds of cattle. Among the poultry he permits no 
fighting; keeps a good watch over them; and at the slightest sign of a 
feud constitutes himself arbitrator between the parties concerned, and 
punishes the delinquent according to his deserts. They all obey him, yet 
he never commits any injustice; on the contrary, he lives in perfect peace 
with all well-conducted animals. He cordially detests anything approaching 
disquiet or quarrelling, punishing the authors of any disturbance according 
to their size; horses, cows and oxen feel the full weight of his beak, while 
ducks and chickens are treated with more indulgence than geese and 
turkeys. He shows in these cases an acuteness worthy of human beings. 
The turkeys are the only creatures which ever attempt to disregard his 
orders or to question his supremacy; when these unite together against him 
he not unfrequently comes off second best. Not long ago he found a turkey- 
cock and a barn-door fowl fighting together, and immediately separated the 
combatants: the fowl retired without opposition; the turkey, however, only 
followed his example after a fierce encounter with the crane, in which he got 
worsted; as soon as the turkey gave in the crane returned to the fowls, 
sought out the cock, and administered the requisite chastisement. He 
looks after the horses in the yard, especially when standing harnessed to a 
