228 The Carnivora. 
Lionne was so bountifully supplied that it ran from her 
as she walked. We tried every means we could devise to 
feed the starving little ones, but in vain; and, on the seventh 
day after their birth, as we sat on the balcony, watching 
their painful, ineffectual efforts to satisfy their hunger, Lulu, 
apparently losing all patience, sprang up, stood for a few 
moments, gazing at her whining offspring, and then trotted 
briskly along the corridor down the stairs. Peeping over the 
balcony, we saw her go out of the house, and turn round the 
corner of the building, in the direction of Lionne’s kennel. In 
less than a quarter of an hour, she returned the way she 
went, followed by Lionne, whom she led towards her still 
whining puppies. For a few moments,-the St. Bernard seemed 
puzzled, but an impatient bark from Lulu‘was evidently sufii- 
ciently explanatory, as she immediately lay down by the side 
of her enemy’s young, and suckled them for full half an hour— 
Lulu meanwhile retiring to a corner, whence she kept a 
watchful eye on the proceedings. When they had had enough, 
Lionne got up, Lulu accompanying her to the top of the 
stairs, to see her off the premises.” 
“The same proceeding in every detail—save that in a few 
days Lionne came of her own accord—was continued twice 
a day, morning and afternoon, for a month, when, the 
puppies being able to lap, Lionne’s visits abruptly ceased. 
In justice to Lulu, who was my faithful companion for thirteen 
years, I must mention that, although her friendship for her 
children’s wet-nurse never reached the ‘gushing’ stage said 
to be characteristic of her sex, she ever afterwards refrained 
from any overt act of hostility towards her benefactress. 
Besides my own family, many neighbours in Bex were wit- 
nesses of this pleasing spectacle.” 
Criminal justice, as administered by the laws of human 
communities against evil doers, is considered in all advanced 
civilisation to be directed towards the prevention of crime in 
others rather than to the punishment of the individual offender. 
The members of the community have collectively agreed to. 
