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mals are to furious rage, aud how plainly they show it. 

 Many, and probably true, anecdotes have been published 

 on the long-delayed and artful revenge of various animals. 

 The accurate Eengger, and Brehm' state that the American 

 and African monkeys which they kept tame certainly re- 

 venged themselves. Sir Andrew Smith, a zoologist whose 

 scrupulous accuracy was known to many persons, told me 

 the following story of which he was himself an eye-witness: 

 At the Cape of Good Hope an officer had often plagued a 

 certain baboon, and the animal, seeing him approaching one 

 Sunday for parade, poured water into a hole and hastily 

 made some thick mud, which he skilfully dashed over the 

 officer as he passed by, to the amusement of many bystand- 

 ers. For long afterward the baboon rejoiced and triumphed 

 whenever he saw his victim. 



The love of a dog for his master is notorious ; as an old 

 writer quaintly says," "A dog is the only thing on this earth 

 that luvs you more than he luvs himself." 



jj In the agony of death a dog has been known to caress his 

 master, and every one has heard of the dog suffering under 

 vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, 

 unless the operation was fully justified by ah increase of our 

 knowledge, or unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt 

 remorse to the last hour of his life.* 



As Whewell" has well asked, "who that reads the touch- 

 ing instances of maternal affection, related so often of the 

 women of all nations, and. of the females of all animals, can 

 doubt that the principle of action is the same in the two 

 cases?" We see maternal affection exhibited in the most 

 trifling details; thus Eengger observed an American monkey 

 (a Cebus) carefully driving away the flies which plagued her 

 infant; and Davaucel saw a Hylobates washing the faces 



* All the following statements, given on the authority of theae two natural- 

 ists, are taken from Rengger's "Naturgesch. der Saugethiere von Paraguay," 

 1830, 8. 41-57, and from Brehm's "Thierleben, " B. i. s. 10-87. 



' Quoted by Dr. Lauder Lindsay, in his "Physiology of Mind in the Low» 

 iknimals"; "Journal of Mental Science," April, 1871, p. 38. 



•• "Bridgewater Treatise," p. 268. 



