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attachment to the human race, Pliny, an ancient 
Roman writer, gives several instances; one only 
we select, as closely resembling that with which 
we shall conclude. A person named Lacydes, 
a philosopher, had a goose which took so strong a 
fancy to him, that it would never willingly leave 
him by night or day, — wherever he went, the Goose 
was his companion ; if he went abroad and walked 
in the public streets, the bird followed him, and in 
his own house, always forced itself into his presence. 
The philosopher, struck with this constant and 
strange attachment, seems to have considered it as 
in some way or other connected with religious feel- 
ings, and, accordingly, when at last it died, he was 
at the expense of bestowing upon it a magnificent 
funeral. 
Our next instance occurred in Scotland ; a Goose, 
a year old, formed a similar attachment to a person 
in Elgin, and would follow him any distance, even 
through the crowd and hustle of the main street. 
One day, when going down this street, its master 
went into a hair-dresser’s shop to he shaved, where- 
upon, the bird waited patiently till the operation 
was finished, and then accompanied him to the house 
of a friend, after which it proceeded home with him. 
Change of dress seemed to make no difference in the 
bird’s powers of distinguishing its master, for in 
whatever dress he appeared, the Goose recognized 
him, and whenever he spoke, it responded by a cry 
expressive of satisfaction. 
Another similar case is on record in Germany : 
an aged blind woman, who probably might have 
been in the habit of feeding it, used to be led every 
