The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-31

an ap fling succession of barking
 "blarts, z totally unlike his ordinary
 dinner I 7 to his mother. ,.,,,,.
 Then tavery horned creature within
 three-quarters of mile will go fight
 ing mad at once and come charging and
 believing down upon you. And woe be-
 tide yoA unless you can reach your horse o4wagon before they arrive on
 the scend, If the youngster chooses the former alternative and honors you with
 his confluence be is simply adding to
 your embarrassment and postponing
 your calamity, for even though he re-
 mains perfectly satisfied with his
 adopted protector yet if his mother
 happens to heave in sight in the course
 of your little promenade across the
 prairie, the only view she i9 capable of
 taking of the matter is that you are i trying to steal her baby, and she will
 act accordingly with great promptness
 Your only policy is to walk quietly and quickly away in the direction of safety, 1 ferVently hoping that his mother may
 be grazing in the other direction. You
 may not even attempt to drive the lit- | tie fellow back, for if you once fairly succeed in calling his attention to you
 and he discovers his mistake, then the danger cry will be raised at once, and you will have not merely the mother but all the herd within hearing of it to 1 reckon with.
 | All very young calves or lambs, both upin the northern plains and the south l ern pampas, have this curious instinct fer following practically any large nov ! ing body-a horse, a man, a wagon, or even, it iS declared, in some cases, one of those curious round weed bushes known as tumble weeds" as they roll slowly across the plain before the wind. After few days or weeks at the out side this completely disappears and the instinct of flight takes place.
 Among our bird cousins the response to this cry is almost equally prompt. By far the most effective means of bringing birds about you for the pur- pose of cultivating their acquaintance after you have settled yourself, field sla,s in hand, with your back against a tree trunk, is to place your lips to the back of your hand in the kissing posi- tion and suck in the air vigorously while keeping them firmly pressed, this giving rise to a haf-squeakng, half whistling sound that closely resembles the cry of a young bird in distress It is astonishing how quickly this will sometimes cause an apparently desert ed tEsicket to become fairly alive with birds, all in a state of anxious excite ment.
 The attitude of dogs and other do- nestic animals toward the babies or children of the family to which they belong, and which they probably regard as adopted into their own family circle, is familiar illustration of this same feeling. Nor is this simply matter of affection for the particular individual; on the contrary, it's purely impersonal and, if we might use the term, abstract character is something curiously shown.
 The broad and beautiful catholcity of sthe maternal instinct in animals, throw ing it's mantle of protection over even the young of their legitimate prey, may also be claimed as a sort of female chivalry. I have known young squir- rels, young rabbits and even young chickens adopted for longer or shorter periods by mother cats, and every col lection of pets can furnish one or more
 
 gruous foster children. Even the disap- pointed instinct of maternity will assert itself in this regard for an orphaned mother hound of my pack was only prevented with great difficulty from ap- propriating the puppies of a, younger and more fortunate sister And I have twice known sour, old maid cats to car " off vi ct armis the kittens of "the fla vorite of the harem;" though, in these last two instances, there was, I fear so often, alas, in even the most pious of human actions-a suspicion, at least, of a strain of the green-eyed monster as well.
 The toast of the ladies' would be cordially received at any canine ban quet, and the courtesy with which the privileges of the sex are respected is a most creditable feature of canine con- duct. I do not, of course, refer merely to the elaborate display of politeness and fine manners seen everywhere dur ing the period of courtship Courtesy to and respect for the weaker sex go far beyond this. No self-respecting dog will bite a female except in the extrem- est need of self-defence though, l am sorry to say that the lady herself. as a rule, has no scruple whatever about to the full extent of her pow CT, any individual of the opposite sex that happens to be inferior to her in size or strength. And, indeed, like the woman in the crowded bus, she is in- | clined to demand her privilege as rights. | A viXenish female will make more trou- ble in a pack of hounds than any three of the sterner sex, for, whenever dissat- isfed, she hasn't the slightest reserve about speaking out at once, and, as her cause is extremely likely to be champi- 1 oned upon general principles by some ! male a free fight is ire quently the result
 So strong is this unWillingness to strike female" that it really becomes ! ] most annoying obstacle in attempting to clear a neighborhood of wolves, as few male dogs will attack a she-wolf, pr, in some cases, even follow her trail | well remember an eXaSperating eXpG- rience of this sort in the early days of 1 my wolf hunting. A she-won had been clearly marked down, in a certain wild .ract of dense hazel brush, by tho fear ,ul havoc which she was making among the lambs of the farmers in it's neigh oorhood. In response to their MecedO-