yon.' \Ye smiled in our turn : the clog's affection was so Ttry 

 marked. 



" The next morning the dog was about as usual. He came 

 to us, and received a double portion of caresses for past ser- 

 vices, also some food in consideration of the long trot before 

 him. The horses were to — we sprang into the carriage, and 

 off we started. Hie Carlo ! Carlo ! — hie Carlo ! Not a log 

 did he wag, hut only his tail. Carlo — Carlo — Carlo ! — The 

 deuce a bit did he stir. He stood watching us with his eyes 

 for a few seconds, as we rolled along, aud then, turning i-ound, 

 walked leisurely np the inn-yard ! Whilst the confounded 

 landlord stood at his door, laughing ! " 



In cases where animals of totally different natures have 

 exhibited an undoubted affection for each other — as between 

 wolves and children, and cats and mice, naturalists, Jesse 

 among the number, have endeavoured to explain the matter in 

 a way more prosaic than pleasant. Of the wolf that carried 

 off the child and tenderly nursed it in its den, and of the gri- 

 malkin caught in the act of suckHng a mouse, they say that 

 selfishness aud not affection is at the bottom of it ; that the 

 savage she-animals finding themselves, through the loss of their 

 young, or some other accident, incommoded by their teeming 

 udders, are content to sink their ajoimosity for their proper 

 prey, in the relief and pleasure they experience in having their 

 teats drawn. 









