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CRIMINAL ANIMALS. 
“ Mr. Gladstone narrowly escaped a serious accident when taking 
exercise in Hawarden Park. A cow, which had escaped 
from its owner when being driven to market, had taken 
refuge in the park, and attacked Mr. Gladstone when 
passing. Fortunately, though knocked down, Mr. Gladstone 
escaped unhurt .” — Daily Paper . 
The general view of good or bad in animal dis- 
position is, no doubt, mainly determined by their 
behaviour to ourselves. That is the fixed opinion 
of the moral relation of animals to man. But there 
is every reason to believe that there are a few indi- 
viduals among the many in all species which have 
some pronounced and inborn bias towards mischief 
and ferocity, which almost entitles them to a place 
in the “ criminal classes ” of animal society. No 
excuse, for instance, can be found for the cow which 
so nearly ended the hopes of Home-rule by knocking 
down the greatest of all Home-rulers, after spending 
a week or more in the hospitable security afforded 
to her by the park at Hawarden, after she had broken 
loose from her owners on the way to market. She 
was, in fact, a heifer, not a cow ; and so had no calf 
