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would quietly slip around the corner of the house to get out 
of the reach of his companion’s temper. Beagle, being a 
large and powerful dog, had in him the ability to give Bus a 
very sound whipping, but he was too noble and magnani- 
mous a creature to take advantage of one younger and 
smaller than himself. He would always allow Bus to have 
his own way, knowing that the passion which was lacerat- 
ing the bosom of his young companion and playmate would 
soon spend itself, and the latter, ashamed and abashed, would 
be soon seeking forgiveness and reconciliation. 
Even in such rarely tamed animals as the common mouse 
the feeling of jealousy has been known to be so intense as 
to lead to murder. A young lady, one of Rev. J.G. Wood’s 
correspondents, had succeeded in taming a common brown 
mouse so completely that it would eat out of her hand and 
suffer itself to be taken off the floor. She had also a tame 
white mouse in a cage. One morning when she went to feed 
the white mouse, as was her usual custom, she found it lying 
dead on the bottom of the cage, and beside it was its mur- 
derer, the brown mouse. The cage being opened, the latter 
made its escape, as though fearful of the consequences that 
might ensue, but how it had managed to gain admission was 
always a mystery. 
Instances are on record where the jealousy of a rival has 
been restrained for long years through fear, and has ulti- 
mately broken out when the cause of the fear has been 
removed. A case of the kind came under our notice some 
few years ago. There were two cocks, belonging to different 
breeds, whom fate had placed as denizens of the same family. 
One was a magnificent dunghill cock, and the other a Malay, 
a cowardly caitiff, that was kept in fear and subjection by 
the former. In the course of events the dunghill cock sud- 
denly died. His rival, coming by chance on his dead body, 
and perceiving that the time had come to wreak out the 
wixture of hatred and revenge that had lain smouldering 
in his bosom for years, instantly sprang upon it, kicked, 
