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the feeble bird on nose and feet, would often gently give up her 
place; but- would sometimes move too slowly, and, teased beyond 
endurance, would occasionally bound upon it without hurting it. 
If the pigeon still continued its attacks, poor puss would dis- 
charge her nervous tension by giving four or five bounds into the 
air and then walk away. One of the hunting dogs, who was very 
young, would often watch the hares at their play, while the strug- 
gle going on in his brain between opposed inclinations was evi- 
denced by a violent trembling of the body. The hares were al- 
ways somewhat timid with the dogs and cats, yet would adminis- 
ter blows with their feet when the former played too roughly 
with them. 
GALLANT Conpbuct oF A Rosin.—On a fine Sunday morning in 
the month of May, my son with another young man were watch- 
ing a sparrow, Passer domesticus, which was building or repairing 
nything native born.” I think the robin showed fine pluck. 
Had the hawk, on giving up his prey, turned upon his pursuer, 
the odds would have been fearfully against that brave bird. " 
the attack was so vigorous that the hawk was completely pi f 
to get away by flight. Whether the traditional X ety. 
can Obin ” experienced the emotion of gratitude = pep nad I 
F eir of bird psychology that we cannot pan 
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