Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-26
Cam Animals Think?
By Frederic j. Haskin

| to the task. When help arrived both
dogs were almost exhausted from their
eXertions, but the terrier was gamely
holding on. while the retriever was
barking with all his might.
A western woman had a cat with UNI
usual traits of character. Tabby mad
been In the family long time and
had always been looked after by the
mistress of the house. When the lat
ter took sick the cat seemed very SYM
pathetic. 1t became much more dem
onstrative than usual. insisting upon
licking the sufferers face and hands.
! and showing in every possible way
IT'S deep affection and concern It had
been the custom each week for the
cook. while doing the marketing, to
! procure a piece of liver for Tabby
| This would be cut into seven pieces,
and a portion given to the cat each
| day When the mistress took to her
bed Tabby showed that her heart was
in the right place by carrying her al
! lowance of meat upstairs and carefully
laying it on the coverlet in front of
the sick person. Failing to tempt the
appetite of her good friend with this
morsel, Tabby tried again by purloin-
ing the whole piece of liver from the
cooks basket, before that worthy had
an opportunity to cut 1t up, and sur
prlsed them all by dragging 1t up
stairs and onto the bed before she
could be intercepted The cats evil
dent notion of treatment for the sick
was something to eat
A man who spends considerable time
each year hunting in the northern
woods tells of an experience he had
with q bull moose, which led him to
believe that that particular bull was
nobody's fool. He slightly injured the
beast at closer range than 1t is usually
~ IL, 4, SUI
denly the animal turned toward the
hunter with lowered head. The sports
man squared away and prepared for
second shot. but to his horror his feet
became entangled in some briers and
he fell. Close to him was a large tree
several feet in thickness. Without hav-
ing an opportunity TO recover his
weapon. he barely had time to scram-
BILE to his feet and dodge behind the
trunk OF the tree before the bull was
upon him. The breathless nimrod was
chased around the tree until his head
fairly whlrled. Suddenly the bull
stopped and charged from the other di-
rection. Then he stopped again and
resorted to the small boys trick of
making a felnt one way, then dart
ing in the other. BY this ruse he
| nearly caught the now thoroughly rat
tied hunter. The gentleman claims
that the timely arrival of n compan-
ion. who dropped the willy bull in his
tracks, was all that saved his life.
Another novel story deals with
foxy little rabbit that played possum
when caught in n piece OF mischief
A lady had two pets in a double hutch.
and one or the other of them kept
gnawing Il hole in the partition be-
tween their quarters. When she APP
preached on tip-toe she was certain
that the sound of gnawing came from
the side nearest her. but upon lifting
the lid and looking In there was bunny
curled up in the straw apparently fast
asleep. She replaced the cover and
listened. This time there could be no
mistake about 1t. Raising the lid the
second time the cute little trickster
was euddled in n different position and
one of his roguish eyes was open. The
third time she left the lid slightly ajar
and caught the offender In the act.
but. as in each instance before. he
rolled over in the straw and feigned
sleep.
Monkeys are the most interesting of
all animals because they are more
nearly like people The baby monkey
acts i'm many ways like a little human.
| 1t chews its fingers and learns to
crawl before it walks: it smiles when
pleased and frowns when displeased;
il screams when in a temper and
groans if il is sick ii COOS when il
Is petted and cries IL it is neglected.
Monkeys can be taught to dress them
selves and do all sorts of tricks. They
can be trained to do work of a light
character. one man has several that
are expert fruit pickers. Someone in
observing them at work noticed that
they slyly ate whenever their masters
back was turned. When spoken TO
about It he replied that he knew it,
but was sure they didn't eat more
than as many boys would If they had
the job. A Florida man tried to teach
a monkey to wait on the table and
succeeded in making a most efficient
servant out of Jocko with but two
exccptions-he couldn't resist the
temptation to stop and tease the cat
and he couldn't keep his fingers out of
the sugar bowl.