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fore parts is associated with endowments of a higher 
animal nature than that of a mere reptile. I men- 
tioned, by way of analogy, the excitement of the Cat- 
bird, in Wilson’s vivid description of alarm and sym- 
pathy in the forest when the cries of young birds are 
imitated. A very characteristic scene of emotion 
occurred the other day in the farm of a friend near 
this place. The calves had been penned up for the 
night, and the mother-kine were gathered about the 
adjoining common to be driven up for the morning 
milking. My young relative Peter, accompanied by 
another young friend, had gone to the pen-fold con- 
taining the calves, and had there indulged his musical 
predilections by carrying with him an accordion, from 
wdiich at times he sounded those musical cadences, 
sometimes in an ascending, sometimes in a descending 
series of notes, at all times solemn and exciting. 
The cows, alarmed at the unusual sound from the 
pen-fold in which were fastened up their impa- 
tient and expectant young ones, ran eagerly from 
all parts of the field — so true was nature to her sym- 
pathies — to what they considered the cry of the calves 
in danger, as if one mind actuated them. The poor 
boys, alarmed at the menaces they saw on all sides, 
without divining the cause, ran away, sounding occa- 
sionally, as they ran, the still exciting accordion. 
The cows pressed in pursuit to ascertain the mys- 
tery of the clamour and cry of distress now turned 
from the cattle-pen to the field. The boys scudded 
on in great fright, and escaped the anxious curiosity of 
the kine with considerable difficulty. A friend related 
to me a still more remarkable instance of sympathetic 
emotion, in the simultaneous gathering together of the 
