WAYS OF NATURE 
under water, hiding by the shore with only the end 
of the bill in the air, or diving and seizing upon 
some object at the bottom, where it sometimes 
remains till life is extinct. 
I once saw some farm-hands try to capture a 
fatted calf that had run all summer in a partly 
wooded field, till it had become rather wild. As 
the calf refused to be cornered, the farmer shot it 
with his rifle, but only inflicted a severe wound in 
the head. The calf then became as wild as a deer, 
and scaled fences in much the manner of the deer. 
When cornered, it turned and broke through the 
line in sheer desperation, and showed wonderful 
resources in eluding its pursuers. It coursed over 
the hills and gained the mountain, where it bafiled 
its pursuers for two days before it was run down 
and caught. All such cases show the resources of 
instinct, the instinct of fear. 
The skill of a bird in hiding its nest is very great, 
as is the cunning displayed in keeping the secret 
afterward. How careful it is not to betray the pre- 
cious locality to the supposed enemy! Even the do- 
mestic turkey, when she hides her nest in the bush, 
if watched, approaches it by all manner of delays 
and indirections, and when she leaves it to feed, 
usually does so on the wing. I look upon these and 
kindred acts as exhibiting only the resourcefulness 
of instinct. . 
We are not to forget that the resourcefulness 
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