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you may observe the little one looking back when in 

 doubt for instructions. 



How does an antelope, on the approach of danger, tell 

 its little one, not yet old enough to run, to lie down in- 

 stanter, and not to stir for its life till called? 



How does a sheep call its particular lamb out of a 

 hundred, or more, a great distance away, and said lamb 

 comes at once, and no others offer to move? When it 

 wants to re-assure its lamb, and to tell it not to come, it 

 employs a very different sound, and the lamb shows by 

 its conduct that it comprehends. 



Tigers make very different noises when searching for 

 their prey, when rejoicing over it, when calling each other. 

 Man can distinguish the difference therein. But there 

 is doubtless much more means of inter-communion which 

 man cannot follow. For instance, tigers and wolves and 

 wild dogs not unfrequently hunt in concert, some lying 

 in ambush, while others beat towards them, and they 

 must have conversed together to pre-concert the plan of 

 the campaign. 



Birds also converse. See how constantly minas are 

 talking away to each other, and swallows before migrat- 

 ing are eternally discussing some subject or other. I 

 presume it is their journey. Rooks hold great assem- 

 blages, and make a most unseemly noise thereat, though it 

 is said that they never "complain without caws." I sup- 

 pose it is difficult for a republican Government, like theirs, 

 to get along without a good many warm debates. Any- 

 how the end of all their talk is rational behaviour, for 



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