Animals Cannot Forget 
DEAR FOREST AND STREAM: 
RIEND VAUGHT of Illinois has 
been a close observer of nature. 
He would delight in the “Folk Tales 
of the Juni Indians” by Frank Cush- 
ing, or “The Descent of the Colorado” 
by Fred Delenbaugh. But driving by 
day and night in our Pennsylvania 
Hills, one sees many of the things that 
eall for thought. Not long ago, I 
thought to preserve some extra fine 
sunflower seed and stretched a clothes- 
line cord across the cellar to hang my 
heads on. Not long after, I noticed 
cuttings on the cement floor. I ex- 
amined the heads and found them 
partly picked of their seeds. I thought 
no more of it, till one night in going 
down to fix the fire, I spied a large 
Norway rat scurrying along the ropes 
to safety. 
A few days afterward, I saw him 
again do the same thing. If any tight 
rope walker of the Barnum days could 
have made a quicker get-a-way than 
that old fellow, I would like to see it 
for the rope was wobbly. I removed 
my seed. Then again, driving along 
the road, I spied a tiny mouse in the 
ditch making good time. She was no 
larger than your thumb and in the 
soft sunshine of spring, her fur glist- 
ened with soft grey sparkling glint- 
ings. I stopped. Mother mouse 
dropped her burden and scrambled up 
the bank into-a dead thorn bush and 
out of sight. I got out to see what she 
had dropped and it was a tiny baby 
mouse. My reverence for her skill to 
detract my attention prompted me not 
to touch the thing she had tried to 
save. Mother, I knew would return 
and claim her own. 
I have known a hound mother to 
carry a litter of 7 puppies back to her 
old home—a distance of 4 miles. I 
have seen a Norway rat mother carry 
her brood from under one cover to an- 
other. I have seen horses in an acci- 
dent and forever remember. I have 
seen bird dogs taught one error and 
forever keep it. I have seen children 
brought into this world and taught 
wrong and overcome the error. Why? 
The why of intelligence. Not the 
faculty of remembering; not the 
faculty of reasoning; not the faculty 
of judgment, but the one great and 
indomitable faculty of the human 
brain—to forget. The horse cannot 
forget. The dog cannot forget. 
Mother mouse cannot forget. Once 
spoiled by a mistake and they go on 
because they lack the mental faculty 
to forget. 
J. G. FisHer, M. D. 
Pluinville, Pa. 
In writing to 

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