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fulfilled her maternal duties without choosing another mate, and 

 migrated in autumn to Africa with her brood and others of her 

 species. The following spring she reappeared on the old nest, un- 

 mated as she had left. She was much wooed, but drove all suitors 

 away with vicious digs of her bill; she mended her nest busily, but 

 only to preserve' her right to occupy it. In autumn she migrated 

 with the rest, returning in spring, and proceeding as before. This 

 occurred eleven years in succession. In the twelfth, another pair 

 attempted to take forcible possession of her nest; she fought bravely 

 for her property, but did not attempt to secure it by taking another 

 mate. The nest was seized, and she remained single. The inter- 

 lopers retained and made use of the nest, and the rightful owner 

 was seen no more, but, as afterwards transpired, she passed the 

 whole summer alone in a district about ten miles distant. Scarcely 

 had the other storks departed, when she returned to her nest, spent 

 a few days in it, and then set out on her journey. She was known 

 throughout the whole district as " the solitary ", and her misfortune 

 and behaviour won for her the friendly sympathy of all kind- 

 hearted men. 



And such behaviour is only the movement of a machine 

 obedient to some external guiding force? All these expressions of 

 a warm and living emotion which we have depicted occur without 

 consciousness? Believe that who can, maintain it who will. We 

 believe and maintain the opposite; the conscious happiness of the 

 love and wedded life of birds appears to us worthy of our envy. 



APES AND MONKEYS. 



Sheikh Kemal el Din Demiri, a learned Arab, who died at 

 Damascus about the year 1405, according to our reckoning, relates 

 in his book, Heiat el Heivan; or. The Life of Animals, the follow- 

 ing wonderful story, which is based on one of the Prophet's utter- 

 ances: — 



" Long before Mohammed, the Prophet and Messenger of God 



