Animal Anecdotes 
of a good meal by snatching up the 
fish and making off with it. But the 
thief had reckoned without his host, 
as he soon found to his cost, for the 
gull seeing its food thus stolen flew 
at the cat and seizing him by the 
back of his neck carried him to the 
tub of water in which it performed its 
daily ablutions. It immersed the 
eat, who still clung to the fish, and 
then withdrew it from the water to 
find that he still held the fish. Again 
and again the sea-gull immersed its 
prisoner, until the cat yielded up its 
unlawful booty. Then letting the 
captive free the bird prepared to enjoy 
its repast and the thief departed a 
wetter but a wiser cat. 
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Two men, accompanied by a 
mastiff, were 
across a field when 
the dog broke away 
from them and began sayagely to 
attack a donkey quietly feeding there. 
It seized the poor animal by the 
throat, dragged it off its feet, and 
then began to worry it in a manner 
which made the donkey's chance of 
life seem very small. To the shouts 
of the men the mastiff paid no heed. 
fierce 
: going 
A Chivalrous ie 
Horse. 
But there was another witness of the Wied Qe: 
scene—a horse in a neighbouring field. 
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He saw the whole atfair and apparently 
made up his mind that the situation 
was desperate. Somebody must go 
to the aid of the donkey, and the horse went. 
With one spring he was over the hedge. Before 
the dog realised his danger the horse seized him 
with his. teeth, tore him from his prey, and then 
by a dexterous movement wheeled round and 
flung out his heels, giving the dog the full 
benefit of the kick. The mastiff slunk off with 
his tail between his legs. 
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A LerIcestrersHire clergyman, who has made a 
; study of rats, relates a story which 
came under his own observation. 
He was walking one evening in 
some meadows, when he observed a large number 
of rats in the act of migrating from one place to 
another. Standing perfectly still, he watched 
A Kindly 
Rat. 
By a dexterous movement the horse wheeled round and flung out his heels, 
giving the dog the full benefit of the kick. 
them as they passed by quite close to him, and 
saw amongst the number an old blind rat with 
one end of a piece of stick in his mouth, while 
another rat held the other end, and thus conducted 
his blind companion in safety to their new abode. 
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A Frenca duchess saw an organ-grinder ill- 
treating his monkey. She was 
moved with pity and bought it. 
It became her chief pet and used 
to follow her about everywhere. Once she 
invited a party of guests to a concert. The 
monkey was allowed to watch, but instead of 
staying where she had put it, it took the hat of 
one of the guests and made a collection, much to 
the delight of the audience, and then emptied the 
contents into the player's lap. 
A Monkey’s 
Memory. 
