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them we can see that it is so), are linked together by no common 
ties. There is not the difference in the laws of human and of 
brute society which at first glance appears. 
Friendship !—is there a surer test of nobleness of character 
than sincerity and permanency of friendship ? The brute is 
capable of it to an intense degree. We do not see many in¬ 
stances of it. Do we see many in the human being? He is a 
happy man who has met with one friend, in the course of a long 
existence. These friendships, however, do exist. We see it to a 
great degree between horses that inhabit the same stable, or 
draw together—we see it more particularly in the dog; and we 
have in our recollection many instances, in which, when death has 
taken from his canine companion the associate of many a year, 
the survivor has not long remained. We have known many a dog 
die as palpably broken-hearted as the truest and fondest friend 
or lover has done. These friendships are sometimes incongruous— 
so are the friendships of man; the opposites in temper and pur¬ 
suits associate and love each other, and now and then the very 
opposition of character constitutes the bond of friendship. 
O’Kelly's Duncannon formed an intense friendship with a 
sheep. It would lift it into the manger to share its fodder, and 
would suffer no one to offer it the least molestation. 
Chillaby, the mad Arabian, whom only one groom dared to 
approach, had also his peculiar attachment for a lamb; and the 
little protegee used to employ himself during many an hour in 
butting away the flies from his nobler friend. 
The Dailey Arabian formed a friendship for a cat, which sat 
upon his back, and nestled as closely to him as she could ; and 
when he died, she pined away, and speedily died too. 
Mr. Montague, in his Ornithological Dictionary, speaks of 
the singular attachment which subsisted between a goose and a 
pointer. The dog had destroyed the gander, and was punished 
severely for his crime, and had the dead gander tied about his 
neck. The solitary goose was exceedingly distressed for the loss of 
her partner, and probably was attracted to the dog's kennel by the 
sight of her dead mate ; and after a little while, a friendship grew 
up between them, and they lived under the same roof, and fed 
out of the same trough, and kept each other warm in the same 
