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living thing within an area quite equal to that 

 dominated by the voice of the ass, that he is 

 at home. 



Professor Lloyd Morgan, in one of his de- 

 lightful books about animals, indulges in what 

 Louis Stevenson might term a "romantic 

 evasion " when he speaks of the " natural pat- 

 chouli " of the billy-goat. Whether the use of 

 this somewhat strained euphemism be due to 

 respect for a national emblem of the Welsh, 

 or whether the learned and gentle Professor 

 desires to lessen the inevitable shock to our 

 feelings which must ensue from his further as- 

 sertion that that most worthy and respectable 

 female, the nanny - goat, takes a gross pleasure 

 in the effluvium, I cannot say. Professor Lloyd 

 Morgan's statements are worthy of all respect ; 

 but, if I have any choice in the matter, I 

 would much rather believe that feminine taste, 

 however capricious, could never sink to such 

 an abysmal depravity. Needless to say, this 

 wild trait in the goat is not one which man 

 has studiously cultivated. There may have been 

 circumstances under which it took its place 

 among the virtues — where, in fact, it contrib- 

 uted to that "odour of sanctity" demanded by 



