MORAL FACULTIES OF BRUTES. 
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how stands the account with regard to the result of these pre¬ 
paratives for the exercise of the reasoning principle ? The impres¬ 
sion is made on the mind—attention fixes it there—memory fre¬ 
quently recurs to it—imagination combines it rightly or erro¬ 
neously with many another impression—judgment determines the 
value of it, and the conclusions which are to be drawn from it, and 
that, if not with logical precision, yet, with sufficient accuracy 
for every practical purpose. 
We had once a sick dog lying within one of the iron gates of 
our hospital, and it was impossible to get in without rolling the 
poor fellow over, and, perhaps, seriously injuring him. A fine 
Newfoundland dog, who was a patient at the same time, came 
to the gate, and stood for a moment gazing on us, seemingly 
wondering why we did not come in as usual; and then, quickly 
comprehending the reason, he gently rolled his companion on one 
side, and, retreating a little from the passage, he seemed to say, 
Come in; there is room for you now. 
A bitch, naturally ill-tempered, and that would not suffer a 
stranger to touch her, had a scirrhous enlargement on one of her 
teats. As she lay in the lap of her mistress we tried repeatedly 
to examine the tumour, in spite of many a desperate attempt on 
her part to bite us: but all at once something seemed to strike 
her mind ; she whined, looked at us, wagged her tail, and sprung 
from the lap on the ground, but it was to crouch at our feet and 
to lay herself down, exposing, as it were, the tumour to our in¬ 
spection. She submitted to a somewhat painful examination of 
it, to a far more painful operation afterward ; and whenever she 
saw us, she testified her joy and her gratitude in the most expres¬ 
sive and endearing manner. We do not need a better illustra¬ 
tion of a perfect train of reasoning than is here afforded. 
The bull to which we alluded in the July number, afforded as 
perfect an one when he resolutely prevented the cows from wan¬ 
dering, and himself and them from correction. 
The horse, who after a few trials is convinced of his inability 
to perform the task required of him, and refuses to exhaust him¬ 
self in useless efforts, is another instance of the exercise of a 
sound judgment. 
We will not refer to the tricks which are taught to various 
quadrupeds—these are unnatural, and almost disgusting things— 
