FIFTEEN] HAPPY ANIMALS 
pressed its head against the bars while its muzzle 
was stroked. Taylor thought that among caged 
lions he had also found some that recognized 
Arabic. Darwin says, ‘“Man uses, in common 
with the lower animals, inarticulate cries to express 
his meaning, aided by gestures and movements 
of the muscles of the face. These gestures and 
movements are more expressive than any words. 
They flow out in the music of the birds, and into 
the articulation of man.” 
No vision of the future will be reasonably com- 
plete that does not anticipate a greatly increased 
power of understanding our animal friends and 
bird friends, and consequent intercourse between 
them and ourselves. 
Rev. Jenks Lloyd Jones tells me that, ‘“ Last 
Sunday Tessie, a Scotch collie dog, stood on a pul- 
pit platform and was the attraction at the St. 
James’ Methodist Sunday-school. She told the 
children the number of the Apostles, the number of 
verses in their Sunday-school lesson, and the num- 
ber of days in the year. She added, subtracted, 
and divided; and she told the children the name 
of the figure on the blackboard, which was written 
and erased during her absence. Of course she had 
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