LITTLE BEASTS AND HOW TO FIND THEM 



the lives of wild animals, especially the rarer 

 kinds and those that are persistently hunted, 

 must be spent in practically unending terror. 

 But judging from what I have seen, I doubt very 

 much if even those that lead the most precarious 

 lives suffer to any great extent from fear. For 

 one thing,. I am pretty thoroughly persuaded 

 that even the wisest of them have no actual 

 comprehension or fear of death, and only avoid 

 danger instinctively. Most animals on finding 

 one of their own kind dead in a trap will ex- 

 amine it casually without exhibiting any marked 

 symptoms of alarm, and will perhaps return later 

 to be caught in the same trap, if nothing further 

 arouses their suspicion. But let one of them be 

 caught insecurely and escape, even if but slightly 

 hurt, and that particular trap, or any other like 

 it near by, will be strictly avoided for months, or 

 else carefully approached and sprung in such a 

 way as to make it harmless. 



As to the danger that comes to them through 

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