Mind in Animals. 30G 
Several of such cases have come to my notice. I shall 
instance but one. A friend of mine has two terriers, a 
mother and a daughter. The strongest bond of love and 
fellowship unites them. They always sit close together, and 
the mother playfully pinches her daughter all over. Should 
they by chance become separated, even for a very short 
time, the daughter comes up wagging her tail, and then licks 
her mother’s nose and mouth. When hunting together, 
they always act in concert, each one taking a hole, and one 
keeping watch while the other scrapes away the earth. The 
meaning of each other’s whine or bark is perfectly under- 
stood, and no two persons could understand their own lan- 
guage better than do these dogs theirs, nor be more com- 
prehensible to each other. 
Self-abnegation is perhaps one of the most beautiful 
characteristics which parental love can give. This is par- 
ticularly shown when the young are in danger. A human 
mother in charge of her child will defy a danger before 
which she would shrink if alone, and in its defence would 
dare deeds of which most strong men would be incapable, 
for during the time her selfhood is extinguished, and her 
being is sunk into that of her child. Such abnegation 
becomes a true mother, for if she would not consent to do 
and dare for the sake of her offspring, she would degrade 
herself below the beasts and the birds, who hesitate not in 
performing that duty to their children, though savanis do 
declare that they possess only storgé, whatever they may 
mean by it, and not parental love. 
Everyone who has paid even a passing attention to the 
habits of birds must have noticed the vigilance a pair of cat- 
birds exercise over their nest when containing young birds. 
Neither parent, when the other is absent, relaxes this vig- 
ilance, for they consider no labor, no care, no watchfulness, 
too great or too exacting where their offspring are to be 
benefited. Let an enemy approach, even if it be man 
himself, and they are beside themselves with anger and 
